The New-York Historical Society Annual Report 1983-1984

The New-York Historical Society

Annual Report for the Years 1983 and 1984

Central Park West and 77th Street New York, New York 10024 Cover illustration: Detail of Trumpet Vine lampshade, made by Tiffany Studios, New York. Gift of Dr. Egon Neustadt, 1984.

Copyright © 1985 by The New-York Historical Society Table of Contents

Report of the President / 5 Report of the Director / 9 Introduction / 9 The Library /11 The Museum / 21 Public Programs and Special Events / 29 Report of the Treasurer / 34 Necrology / 46 Special Members of the Society / 49 Donors / 57 Contributors to the Library / 65 Museum Acquisitions / 72 Presidents and Medalists of the Society / 78 Board of Trustees / 79 Committees / 80

Report of the President

In November of 1984, the Society threw open its doors to cele­ brate 180 years devoted to New York's history and culture. More than 800 well-wishers came to the Society to take part in our first gala, which featured special exhibitions designed to evoke the spirit of nineteenth-century New York, a bill of fare typical of the Jeffersonian era, and popular music from both 1804 and 1984. In the midst of all the festivities, one very special, although absent, well-wisher saluted the occasion from the White House with the following telegram:

I am honored and delighted to extend my warmest greeting to the distiguished members and guests of The New-York Historical Society as you gather for the celebration of the Institution's 180th Anniversary. . . . Your Society is noted for its leadership and accomplish­ ments in the preservation of history in all its forms, not only in New York City and State, but in the nation as a whole. Our heritage is the more secure because of the worthy efforts of the members of the Society. . . . America is very much at a crossroads today, as it was in 1804, the year you now commemorate. I am confident that the citizens of our Republic will choose the right road for the future—the path to greatness—that was chosen so many years ago. Your organization and other bodies that assist in keeping our traditions and knowledge of our sacred past alive will in turn live on for many years to come to the benefit of New Yorkers and all Americans. . . . — RONALD REAGAN That congratulatory message also contains a serious charge to us for our future. In order to continue our leadership in the preser­ vation of history in all forms, to fulfill our mission of keeping our traditions and the knowledge of our country's past alive, we must continue along the path to greatness envisioned by our founders in 1804. We must recognize that our needs today are as great as they were 180 years ago. In 1984, we are blessed with great col­ lections unfortunately housed in a landmark building. We need to increase our care for those collections and for our building, and we must continue to collect with as much vigor as our predeces­ sors did. We need to expand further our public programs and to endow some of these programs so that they too can become beloved Society traditions. We must increase staff salaries and benefits, so that we and our public will continue to be served by individuals of the highest caliber. The Society's Board has been strengthened in the past year by the addition of three new Trustees: Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor — who has served as Chairman of the Pintard Fellows since 1983 and who also served as Benefit Chairman for the Society's 180th Anniversary gala —was elected to a term ending in 1986. Albert L. Key was elected to the class of 1988. An investment banker with Wellington & Co., Mr. Key has developed a keen interest in New York history and gives a very popular series of lectures on New York history at Long Island University. He has led many historical tours of New York under the auspices of C.W. Post University. Mr. George T. Scharffenberger was elected to the class of 1988. Mr. Scharffenberger is President and Chairman of the Board of the City Investing Company of New York. In addi­ tion to serving on the Boards of several corporations, Mr. Scharf­ fenberger is a Trustee of the University of Southern California and of its Annenberg School of Communications, a Director of Georgetown University, a Board Member of the Council for Financial Aid to Education, Inc., and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Hawaiian Educational Council. The Society is much enriched by the addition of these Trustees to our Board. In 1984, one of our longstanding Trustees, Mrs. John Kean, retired from active participation on our Board. Mrs. Kean had served the Society as a Trustee since 1967, serving ably as the Board's Recording Secretary and on the Membership Commit­ tee. In recognition of her many contributions to the Society, she was elected an Honorary Trustee. It is my sad duty to report the death of Rodney W. Williams, an Honorary Trustee and Life Member of the Society. Mr. Williams served as a Trustee of the Society from 1952 until 1968, when he was elected an Honorary Trustee. His loyal support of the Society will be greatly missed. The New-York Historical Society has much to be proud of in its 180-year history, and, as you will see in this report, the progress made in 1983 and 1984 speaks well for our future. Let us join together to keep this momentum going, so that we will be even more proud of our Society on our 185th anniversary, and on our 190th, and on into our bright and promising future.

Robert G. Goelet, PRESIDENT Childe Hassam's sparkling Flags, 57th Street, Winter, is now part of the Society's growing collection of twentieth-century art. Bequest of Julia B. Engel. Report of the Director

Introduction Both for new beginnings and for the continuation of established traditions, 1983 and 1984 were exciting years at The New-York Historical Society. The library and museum continued their active collection and preservation of materials important to the under­ standing of American history, and—through stimulating exhibits — gave the public a broad view of these treasures. Our talented and dedicated staff grew with the addition of professionals bringing new ideas along with their particular skills and expertise. And our membership increased by 160 percent. The Society has rarely offered a more active schedule of special exhibitions than it organized in 1983 and 1984; a strong increase in attendance suggests that the public welcomed our efforts. In the library, staff members hired under two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, one from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and one from the U.S. Department of Education have made great progress in the computerized cataloguing of our collections. An expanded calendar of lectures and other programs, including the institution of an annual scholarly conference at the Society, informed and entertained members and guests alike. We initiated an active volunteer program, providing tours of the mu­ seum's permanent and special exhibitions to school groups and others. And a membership campaign begun in November, 1983, increased membership to 2,336 by the end of 1984. We stand poised for a period of expanding activity and increased visibility in the city's cultural community. Such growth is possible only with the support of a variety of constituencies, both public and private. So before turning to the accounts of particular depart­ ments, I want to detail two instances of the Society's success in attracting such support. In 1984, for the first time in our history, we opened our doors for a gala benefit, inviting individuals and corporations to cele­ brate our past and to contribute to our future. Our efforts, led by Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor as Chairman of the Benefit Committee, yielded a response far exceeding our expectations. An active Junior Committee, chaired by Mr. and Mrs. John B. Glass, Jr., brought us many new faces. Eight hundred*guests strolled through our gal­ leries, enjoying refreshments from the Jeffersonian era, dancing to the music of the Alexander Haas Orchestra, recreating the Repub­ lican victory in the national election of 1804, and gathering to toast the Society and blow out the candles on a birthday cake decorated with our seal. With numerous dignitaries and prominent citizens in attendance, the evening was a great success, broadening our support among both individuals and corporations and setting a fine precedent for future benefits. But we can find an equally satisfying fundraising success within the province of our daily work, away from the publicity and glitter of such public efforts. With the support of the federal Institute for Museum Services and Paul Newman's charitable enterprise, Salad King, Inc., we have been able to renovate, equip, and staff a new paintings conservation facility. We soon will be able to complete a range of conservation tasks without subjecting our paintings to travel, and to treat problems as they develop. In the near future, we plan to extend our conservation capabilities to include the treat­ ment of works on paper. Allowing us to march with our peers in the museum field, our conservation program illustrates the sort of success that will attend future efforts to seek support from public and private sources. So from the most visible to the most internal activity of the Society, we find the beginnings of increased support that will be required to accomplish our mission in the years ahead. As you read about our accomplishments for 1983 and 1984, you will see the grounds for my enthusiasm for our future—programs and exhi­ bitions that maintain a tradition of excellence in scholarship and public service, and new initiatives throughout the Society that de­ velop as well as continue our history of wide-ranging achievement.

10 The Library In every area of the library's activity, from cataloguing to exhibi­ tions, 1983 and 1984 were sterling years. The library entered the computer age in 1983, as our staff began to automate our cata­ loguing systems. As we began our second year of computerized cataloguing operations, we moved from developing familiarity with this powerful tool to its proficient use for information processing and retrieval. In both years we provided research materials to a broad range of readers and answered a slew of inquiries from across the country, rnaintaining the tradition of public service for which we have long been known. And in addition to acquiring items of value and interest for all aspects of the collection, we mounted a series of informative exhibits for the general public. In 1982, we reported the receipt of a special initiative grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, enabling us to be­ come full members of the Research Libraries Group. In 1983, we began to participate in the Group's programs, particularly its com­ puterized union catalog, the Research Libraries Information Net­ work (RLIN). Our first terminal was installed in July, 1983, the staff received training in August, and we made our first entry on August 24th—the first of many thousands to come. Claire de Mandy and her cataloguing staff are using the system for all new and rare book acquisitions, sheet music, broadsides, and atlases. At the end of 1983, we began our Andrew W. Mellon Foundation cataloguing project by hiring additional staff members to process several thousand rare titles of nineteenth-century Americana. Support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provided funds to continue our cataloguing work in 1984. We continued to enter complete catalog information on rare books, pamphlets, broadsides, man­ uscripts, and new contemporary works into the computers of RLIN. Of the 2,670 records entered in 1984, more than 80 percent were new entries in the RLIN data base, representing original cataloguing by our staff. A grant from the U.S. Depart­ ment of Education was awarded in 1984 for work on the Rufus King collection, and the cataloguing and preserving of this rare eighteenth-century political, diplomatic, and legal material began

11 in December. It is through cataloguing projects like these that information about our holdings is made instantly accessible throughout the nation, and the importance of projects like these to the scholarly community is immense. In its original configuration, RLIN could only accept entries for published materials. As the system becomes increasingly flexible, we are preparing to enter other kinds of holdings. Thomas J. Dunnings began to record information about our manuscript collections early in 1984; additional improvements in the RLIN system will soon allow it to accept data on our graphic holdings. In 1983, we devised new procedures that enable users of our voluminous and diverse collection of graphic materials to conduct their research more efficiently and thoroughly. Once the Research Libraries Group establishes a separate computer file for graphic holdings, users at terminals across the country will be able to search our catalog for information on the creator, printer, tide, date, subject, and format of items in our collections. The staff of the Print Room are now cataloguing using the new procedures in anticipation of the RLIN file for graphic materials. We have also prepared more traditional registers and inventories as finding aids for the Bookplate and Browning photograph collections. These guides will serve as models for the group cataloguing of large holdings. Researchers continue to use our architecture collections heavily, especially the Cass Gilbert material. We lent drawings and photo­ graphs for exhibition on the restoration of the U.S. Custom House in New York and the Brooklyn Army Supply Base. We also lent material to Oberlin College, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Art Institute of Chicago. The Armand G. Erpf Fund project to catalog Cass Gilbert ren­ derings and drawings, reported in 1982, is complete; some 5,500 designs for 270 buildings, including many previously unrecorded plans and competition entries, are readily accessible. Before this project began, only 512 drawings for eighty-five buildings were fully recorded. The index to the collection provides access by build­ ing name, location, date, and type. We are now seeking funds to process the remainder of the collection, which includes extensive correspondence files, and to conserve this fragile material.

12 The Society's involvement with the United States Newspaper Project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, started in January, 1983. We joined the computer network, OCLC, Inc., hired four new staff members, and, with five other institu­ tions, embarked on this landmark pilot project to catalog every newspaper ever published in the United States. The Society, with more than 8,500 tides covering all fifty states, has one of the larg­ est collections in the country. Our newspaper cataloguing staff pro­ cessed all of our New York newspapers by the end of 1983, and began work on our extensive holdings of newspapers from the rest of the country. The project has been funded through 1985, by which time all of the Society's newspaper holdings will be cata­ logued on the OCLC data base. A grant from the H.W. Wilson Foundation in 1983 enabled us to catalog all of our broadsides through the Civil War era. These ephemeral documents have always been difficult to control biblio- graphically, but now, thanks to the Wilson Foundation grant, the Society's broadsides are accessible and we have begun to enter them into the RLIN system.

As it is one of the chief objects of our Society to accumulate materials for the use of future historical students, it is most evident that we should carefully provide for the collection of photographs—not only the likenesses of eminent men and women, but views of streets, houses, landscapes, processions, reviews, batdes and sieges and indeed almost every thing which can be photographed.

How prescient our Society was when in 1862 the above was in­ cluded in the report of the Committee on the Fine Arts! We have all learned that photographs are important documentary sources for the historian, and we are thankful that our predecessors col­ lected as they did. We have continued in this tradition, and we received significant donations of New York City photographs in 1983 and 1984. In 1983, Ruth Trappen donated twenty-eight al­ bums by the accomplished but hitherto unknown amateur photog­ rapher Robert L. Bracklow. In December, Alexander Alland, Sr., donated more than 2,000 Bracklow negatives with all property and

13 reproduction rights. Bracklow documented the New York cityscape from the 1880s to the 1910s, with an eye toward preserving images of historic structures about to be torn down and new structures ready to reshape the city environment. In photographs from trips in and around New York with friends and members of the New York Camera Club, Bracklow provided warm insights into the leisure pleasures of his time and the convivial atmosphere of the increasingly popular hobby of photography. In 1984, we were the beneficiary of a very generous donation by Ilona Albok Parker of more than 200 photographs of New York taken by her father, John Albok (1894-1982), a photographer gain­ ing increasing recognition among scholars and critics. The Albok photographs given to the Society include views of Central Park, the 1939-1940 World's Fair, ethnic parades and celebrations, World War II rallies, and New York City street scenes; they date from 1928 to 1980. The most significant donation to the Bella C. Landauer Collec­ tion in 1983 related to one of early twentieth-century New York's highly profitable industries—cigar making. From Raymond Kane and Morris, Neil, and Stanley Greenberg we received 250 cigar label proof books made by the Consolidated Lithographic Corpo­ ration of Brooklyn. The Polychrome proof books, from one of the country's largest producers of cigar labels in the twentieth century, are a microcosm of American advertising themes, and offer a daz­ zling array of iconographic motifs: men's pastimes, famous peo­ ple, Americana, plants, and animals. Designed to appeal to men's rather than women's tastes, the labels are often fascinating illustra­ tions of the American man's dreams. With this gift, the Society now has one of the largest known collections of its kind. With the repeal of prohibition in 1933, the speakeasy passed into history. The Society can now document the era with a collection of prohibition-era ephemera, including membership cards, invitations, liquor price lists, temperance pledges, and magazine cartoons and articles. Our print collection received more additions than we can re­ count in one report. We ought to recall, however, our purchase of a lovely and rare view of the New York Hotel, produced between 1845 and 1848 by G. W. Endicott and the artist John Penniman.

14 An outstanding Print Room acquisition: One of a pair of rare colored lithographs by C.B. Graham of James Wilson's fashions for 1835. This lithograph, showing fall and winter styles, has in its background two Ionic-columned houses, built in 1833 for hat manufacturer Elisha Bloomer, that were previously unrepresented in our collection.

Also of note are the rare pair of colored lithographs by C. B. Graham of James Wilson's fashions for 1835. Ten figures model Wilson's spring and summer styles in front of St. Paul's Chapel and the Astor House. The fall and winter scene emphasizes the men's market, illustrating eight men and boys and only two women. Most interesting, however, are the background buildings. The remark­ able pair of Ionic-columned houses, previously unrepresented in our collection, were built in 1833 for the hat manufacturer Elisha Bloomer at 714-716 Broadway, and stand next to two typical mer­ chants' houses.

15 As is customary, we received many important manuscript col­ lections during 1983 and 1984. It is well known that our library holds the most important collection of orderly books dating from the French and Indian War through the War of 1812. Through purchase, we added two of Major General Thomas Gage's orderly books covering the periods August 25, 1766, through July 1, 1768, and October 29,1771, through July 10,1774. From his headquarters in New York, Gage—Commander-in-Chief of British forces in North America—issued orders relating to all aspects of military life: courts martial, executions, troop transport, barracks, discipline, arms, accouterments, clothing, promotions, funerals, reviews, Indian affairs, and the use of alcohol. Also from the eighteenth century came the day book, ledger, and invoice book, 1776-1783, of the Revolutionary physician Dr. Andrew Van Allen of Bushwick, Kings County, New York. This rare manuscript records the names of patients, an occasional loca­ tion, treatments, fees, and payments received. One of the Society's outstanding manuscript collections is the archive of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company. We have the papers almost in their entirety from 1834 through 1847. For the period prior to 1834, the year Astor withdrew from the company, only scattered items of this firm have been preserved, because the Great Fire of 1835 in New York destroyed many of them. We were, then, delighted to receive from Robert L. Hoguet a collection of letters, dating from 1813 to 1828, primarily between John Jacob Astor and his general manager of the American Fur Company, Ramsay Crooks. This extensive correspondence concerns the fur and Indian trade in general, and the operation of Astor's company in particular. It includes letters written from New York City, Buf­ falo, Pittsburgh, Erie, Detroit, Geneva, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. The collection also includes letters to and from William B. Astor, George Astor, and fur traders Robert Stuart, William W. Mathews, Kenneth MacKenzie, and Joseph Rolette. To augment our large holdings of social welfare material, we were fortunate to receive from the Leake and Watts Children's Home of Yonkers, New York, its archives for the years 1831 through 1949, as well as the records of five other similar organiza-

16 tions that became part of the institution: The Orphans Home & Asylum of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, 1851— 1947; the Society for the Aid of Friendless Women & Children, Brooklyn, 1869-1922; the Sevilla Home for Children, New York, 1889-1947; the Hopewell Society of Brooklyn, 1921-1947; and the Sevilla-Hopewell Society, 1947. Included in this material are the minutes from meetings of Boards of Trustees and various commit­ tees, agreements, applications, registers of admissions/discharges, reports, treasurer's accounts and other financial records, a punish­ ment book, visitors books, real estate records, and miscellaneous papers. Through the endowment so generously provided by the Naval History Society, we purchased a collection of letters from James Kirke Paulding to Henry Brevoort, Jr., of New York City. Most of this correspondence was written from Washington, D.C., in 1815 and 1816, during Paulding's tenure as Secretary of the Board of Navy Commissioners in James Madison's second admin­ istration. Paulding comments upon politics and statesmen, social life in Washington, mutual friends, the Northeast Boundary ques­ tion, and other matters. Our Luman Reed collection grew thanks to a gift from the estate of Sarah Fuller Preston, through the good offices of Mrs. George W. D. Symonds. Included are letters from Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, George W. Flagg, and James H. Hackett. Dr. Thomas Perry, Jr., gave to us a set often auto­ graph manuscript descriptions of birds prepared by John James Audubon for volume one of his Ornithological Biography of 1831. Dr. Perry's generous gift is an important addition to our Audubon manuscript holdings, which up to this point had consisted solely of correspondence. We are always eager to add to our holdings of the papers of John Pintard, founder of The New-York Historical Society. There­ fore, we were gratified to obtain the largest archive concerning Pintard to be offered for acquisition in nearly fifty years. This im­ portant collection contains journals, bankruptcy documents, let­ ters, and other manuscripts relating to his imprisonment for debt. The Society maintains an interest in material from the whole of New York State, not only New York City. Some scarce additions to the library in 1983 and 1984 concern western New York and the Holland Land Company. We purchased two manuscript maps of

17 the John B. Church tract in the eastern part of Allegany County, which complement our collection of his son Philip Church's papers. With funds from the Lathrop G. Harper Trust Fund, we pur­ chased the first edition of Description of the Genesee Country by Charles Williamson, printed in Albany by Loring Andrews in 1798. The history of our copy is of particular interest to us, since it formerly belonged to Chancellor James Kent, fifth President of the Society and prominent jurist. Also from Albany, and likewise purchased from the Harper Trust Fund, is the early Catalogue of Books for Sale either by Wholesale or Retail by Thomas, Andres & Pmnirnan, at the Albany Bookstore. . . Albany: Printed by Loring Andrews & Co. for Thomas Andrews & Penniman [1797]. It is fitting to conclude this part of our report with a mention of our latest imprint by New York's first printer, William Bradford. Again through the generosity of the late Lathrop G. Harper, we were able to purchase the very rare A Modest and impartial Narrative of several Grievances and Great Oppressions.. . [Philadelphia: William Bradford, 1691]. Known in only one other copy, this item of early Americana concerns the Leisler rebellion in New York. Jacob Leisler, a local merchant of German descent, took advantage of England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-89, and gained control of New York City until 1691, when the King's men imprisoned and executed him. The events surrounding Leisler's career long re­ mained a factor in New York politics. At the time of this tract's publication, there was no printer in New York, and the Narrative was taken to Bradford's press in Philadelphia. A little more than two years later, Bradford was forced to relocate in New York. The library staff once again proved its curatorial talents by staging several exhibitions during 1983 and 1984 in the Library Gallery. 1983 was an especially good year for celebrations: we observed Black History Month with "A Heritage to Remember: The Black Experience in New York"; we marked the two hun­ dredth anniversary of Washington living's birth with "The Sage of Sunnyside: A Washington Irving Bicentennial Celebration, 1783-1983"; and we took part in the festivities surrounding the one hundredth birthday of the Brooklyn Bridge by staging "A Bridge Opens to Brooklyn," an unusually large exhibition for the library, as it took up the entire second floor corridor as well as the Library

18 Gallery. "A Celebration of Opera in Nineteenth-Century New York" highlighted the city's long tradition of operatic excellence, and "The Library of John Pintard: Book Collecting in the New Republic" was dedicated to the collection that the Society's founder developed, which later became the nucleus of our library's holdings. In 1984, "The Sons of Saint Patrick: The Irish and the Irish Organizations in New York City before 1900" saluted that signifi­ cant part of New York's heritage. To honor the one hundredth birthday of the Grolier Club, we put on "The Cultural Pleasures of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century New York: A Centennial Tribute to the Grolier Club." Other library exhibitions for the year were "Treasures of Manuscript Americana," "Ardent Spirits and Demon Rum: Temperance Movements in America," "Her Voice Was Heard: Women and Politics in America," and "Lurid Litera­ ture: Popular Reading of the Nineteenth Century."

Robert J. Stickney's bequest of two Ammi Phillips paintings, Peleg Pelton and Mrs. Peleg Pelton, enhances our significant collection of eighteenth-century limner and folk portraits.

19 A 1934 bronze bust of William Paley, by noted American sculptor Jo Davidson, is one of eleven Davidson portrait busts given to the Society by Dr. Maury P. Leibovitz.

20 The Museum 1983 and 1984 were busy and fruitful years for the Museum" Department of The New-York Historical Society. The exhibition schedule included important large-scale loan exhibitions that attracted favorable critical attention and significant donations to the museum collections. A series of smaller exhibitions—some organized in-house, and some in a cooperative spirit with other cultural institutions, both in this country and abroad—kept our galleries lively with treasures and interested visitors throughout both years. In 1983, "A Celebration: American Landscape Painting, Genre Art and Drawing" was the largest and most ambitious of the year's exhibitions that consisted primarily of our own pieces. Works from the Society's outstanding collections in these fields were installed throughout the first floor galleries and corridors. The show also included one important loan, Thomas Cole's four-part series "The Voyage of Life," from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York, which we exhibited facing our own five-part Cole cycle, "The Course of Empire." Although the two series had been shown in the same exhibition once previously—in 1848, in two separate buildings—this was their first appearance together. "A Celebration," and a catalog of our landscape and genre paintings issued at the same time, marked the culmination of the career of Richard J. Koke, who organized the exhibition and com­ piled the publication. At the time of his retirement in July, 1983, Mr. Koke had been the curator of our museum for nearly thirty- six years. His comprehensive, three-volume catalog, American Landscape and Genre Paintings at the New-York Historical Society, co- published by the Society and G. K. Hall, is evidence of his match­ less knowledge of our collections and his keen understanding of American art. We miss his puckish smile, but are grateful for his dedication to the Society over many years. In recognition of his services, Mr. Koke received the tide Curator Emeritus. Four other large exhibitions, organized with the assistance of guest curators, afforded the public the opportunity to sample our rich holdings. From September, 1983, to March, 1984, "Artists' Views of Central Park, 1814-1914," used important early views

21 from our collections to trace the history of the land that the park now occupies. Loans of turn-of-the-century paintings by such artists as Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, and William Glackens complemented our own holdings. We are grateful to Gail T. Guillet, who curated the exhibition, and to the Arthur Ross Foundation, the Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc., and the New York Times Company Foundation, Inc., for their support. From October, 1983, to June, 1984, "Struggle for a Continent: Francis Parkman's France and England in North America" illustrated a nineteenth-century historical masterpiece on the occasion of its republication by the Library of America. Max Rudin of the Library of America organized the exhibition. A popular favorite, the exhibition "From Shanties to Skyscrapers: Robert L. Bracklow's Photographs of Early New York," on display from December, 1983, to May, 1984, included more than 150 views of the city and its environs taken from the 1890s to the 1910s by a photographer who was virtually unknown before this exhibit. Alexander Alland, Sr., who contributed many of the photographs in the exhibition to the Society, and Gail Buckland, the guest curator, prepared es­ says for a handsome pamphlet that accompanied the show, which received many favorable notices in the press. Another popular exhibition in 1983 was "The World of Tiffany: The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Lamps," curated by Wade McCann. Dexter Hall, our largest gallery, sparkled with more than 130 lamps de­ signed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and produced at the Tiffany Studios in Corona, Queens. The show, which consisted of exam­ ples from Dr. Egon Neustadt's personal collection, received acclaim as the most comprehensive public exhibition of Tiffany lamps ever organized. Dr. Neustadt made it possible for this won­ derful and important collection to remain on view at the Society when he donated the entire collection to us in January, 1984; it is certainly one of the most splendid and colorful donations that the Society has ever received. A large exhibition of Currier & Ives lithographs from the corporate collection of Esmark, Inc., also drew many people to the Society over the summer months. Two of 1983's special exhibitions were mounted by the Society in collaboration with sister institutions. "Fire Fighting on Parade, 1700-1865" highlighted part of the New York Fire House's perma-

22 nent collection during the preparation of this new museum's quar­ ters. "Lights, Camera, Action: New York's Silent Film Studios" consisted primarily of pieces from the permanent collection" of The Astoria Motion Picture and Television Foundation, another insti­ tution with plans for a museum. Several items from other lenders completed this popular exhibition. "New York Themes: Paintings and Prints by William Meyero- witz and Theresa Bernstein," on view from October, 1983, through February, 1984, was a departure of sorts for the Society. We have never actively collected twentieth-century art, nor have we exhib­ ited works from that period more than occasionally. "New York Themes," however, consisting entirely of scenes of the city during the first half of this century, announced our intention to take an active interest in recent representational art, especially views of New York City and State and the work of local artists. We are grateful to Theresa Bernstein —still an active painter —and to an anonymous collector, for lending the work that comprised the exhibition. With the opening in February, 1984, of "New York and the China Trade," The New-York Historical Society celebrated an historic embarkation. On February 22, 1784, the Empress of China sailed from New York harbor bound for Canton, opening the lucrative American China Trade. A mouth-watering array of China Trade porcelain, all of New York provenance, as well as a panoply of other objects and documents commemorated the bi­ centennial of this voyage. Conrad E. Wright, the Society's former staff historian, joined hands with guest curator David S. Howard, a leading expert on Chinese export porcelain, in producing the 160-page catalog that accompanied the exhibition. It will serve as a permanent source of information on the American China Trade for scholars and collectors in the field. "New York and the China Trade" was funded in part by The Vincent Astor Foundation, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Dillon Fund, the Sarah I. Schieffelin Residuary Trust, the Atlantic Richfield Foundation, and the Armand G. Erpf Fund. David S. Howard again offered his expertise at the Society when he served as guest curator for the exhibition "A Pageant of Heraldry in Britain and America." Mounted jointiy with Britain's

23 College of Arms, the exhibit was the first major heraldic show of its kind ever to be mounted in the United States. Few who saw it will forget the magnificent Great Tournament Roll of Westminster, a sixty-foot-long expanse of illustrated vellum prepared in 1511 to celebrate the birth of Prince Henry, infant son of Henry VTII and Catherine of Aragon. The display of the scroll at the Society was a significant event in itself; the scroll had never before been shown outside of Great Britain, and there, only once in this century. "A Pageant of Heraldry" was sponsored by the U.S. Trust Company of New York and the College of Arms Foundation. Of a more nationalistic flavor was the photographic exhibition "Visions of Liberty," organized by guest curator Gail Buckland, the first in a series of three exhibits that the Society is mounting to celebrate the centennial of the Statue of Liberty. A generous loan of extraordinary nineteenth-century photographs of the statue's construction and its various installations in the 1880s came from the Muse'e Bartholdi in Colmar, France. Many of these photo­ graphs had never been exhibited previously outside of France; two were taken by the statue's illustrious designer, Fre'de'ric Auguste Bartholdi, himself. Exhibitions of playing cards and family portraits indicated the historical and artistic importance of both ephemeral and enduring materials in the Society's collections. Nearly one hundred rare European and American playing cards and board games, some dating from as early as the sixteenth century, provided a visual history of fun in "Lost in the Shuffle: Playing Cards and Board Games from Bygone Days," organized by David Greenwald. The physiognomies and lifestyles of the Beekman, DePeyster, Living­ ston, Schuyler, and Van Rensselaer families were recalled through their portraits, heirlooms, household furnishings, and family pa­ pers in "Five New York Families," organized by Francie Downing. In November, 1984, the Society opened "The Baroness Hyde de Neuville: Sketches of America, 1807-1822," an exhibition high­ lighting the paintings and sketches of this French traveler who recorded the American scene in the early nineteenth century. "The Baroness Hyde de Neuville" was organized in cooperation with the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers, the State Uni­ versity of New Jersey, and was made possible in part with public

24 funds awarded by the New York State Council on the Arts. These are but a sampling of the many exhibitions on view at the Society in 1983 and 1984. They demonstrate the high artistic quality and educational vitality of the Society's exhibition program as a whole.

As we installed special exhibitions throughout 1983 and 1984, we made substantial progress in another important area, the renova­ tion of our galleries. Over the years, temporary exhibition props— which all too frequently became permanent—obscured the parquet floors, brass trim, windows with park views, and fifteen-foot ceil­ ings of many of our exhibition spaces. We have restored six of our galleries to their original elegance as we mounted new shows, and we intend to preserve their integrity in the future as temporary exhibitions open and close. In 1983, we established a summer internship program for grad­ uate students in art history and the decorative arts. Jenny Cook of Wake Forest University, Francie Downing of the Parson's School of Design/Cooper-Hewitt Museum Master's Program in the Deco­ rative Arts, and Kris tan McKinsey of the Early American Culture Program of the Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum spent ten busy weeks compiling condition reports and cataloguing parts of our furniture and silver collections. Mrs. Downing has contin­ ued her productive work at the Society as decorative arts con­ sultant. In 1984, two summer interns completed projects at the Society. Henry Duffy, who received his M.A. from the Williams College/Clark Institute program and is enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Rutgers University, researched and planned a future exhibition on Lake George drawn entirely from the Society's collections. Carol Kim—a Master's degree candidate in the Early American Culture Program of the Henry Francis duPont Winter­ thur Museum—researched, organized, and designed a permanent installation of Chinese export artifacts from the Society's collections. As we organized exhibitions throughout 1983 and 1984, we be­ came indebted to many institutions for their assistance. One way in which we repay such obligations is to make works from our collections available for exhibition elsewhere. In 1983, William

25 Sidney Mount's Bargaining for a Horse appeared in "A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting, 1760-1910," which opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and traveled to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Grand Palais in Paris; Charles Willson Peale's The Peale Family was a centerpiece of "Charles Willson Peale and His World," which was on view at the National Portrait Gallery, the Amon Carter Museum, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art; we lent George Henry Boughton's Pilgrim's Going to Church to the Detroit Institute of Arts for "The Quest for Unity: American Art Between World's Fairs, 1876-1893"; and we sent three paintings to the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., for its exhibition "Painting and Painters in Washington, D.C., 1800-1915." We continued this policy in 1984, and made important loans of portraits and portrait busts to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for their exhibition on John Quincy Adams Ward, and to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., for an exhibition of William Edward West and Joseph Wright. In addi­ tion, paintings from our collection were sent on long-term loan to the Governor's Mansion in Albany and to Gracie Mansion, the newly restored residence of the Mayor of New York City. Additions to our impressive permanent collection came in the form of gifts, bequests, and purchases. Notable acquisitions during 1983 included Samuel Colman's Castle Garden and the Bay of New York, purchased through the Bryan Fund; two paintings by Benja­ min Champney, both bequests of Elsie Stevenson Magie; and two twentieth-century paintings purchased through the Bryan Fund, New York Public Library, Interior and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Reception, both by Theresa Bernstein. We are grateful to two Trustees for their contributions to our collections in the decorative arts. Mrs. Donald C. Platten donated a five-piece Victorian rosewood salon set, and Robert G. Goelet made several gifts of silver, including a caster by John Vernon, a teapot made by Tiffany & Co., and a group of fourteen teaspoons by various New York makers. As a result of our interest in Tiffany, we received a lovely chi- noiserie silver pitcher marked Tiffany, Young & Ellis from Mrs. Cruger D. G. Fowler and her family, in memory of Cruger Dela-

26 field Groesbeck Fowler. Two special funds enabled us to purchase two other silver pieces made by Tiffany & Co., a silver and enam­ el tea caddy c. 1885, and a silver tea caddy c. 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Koch donated four unusual pieces of Tiffany glass. A great number of noteworthy works of art with historical sig­ nificance were also added to the New-York Historical Society col­ lection through gift and purchase in 1984. In January, the Society officially received an exemplary collection of Tiffany lamps through the generosity of the late Dr. Egon Neustadt. They are now in a permanent installation in Dexter Hall. William Banks, Stanley Chao, Andres Yzaguirre, and Mrs. Noel F. Bowers responded to our exhibition "New York and the China Trade" with generous and very beautiful donations of fine examples of Chinese export porcelain, a model of the clipper ship Flying Cloud, and a magnifi­ cent mother-of-pearl sea chest from the nineteenth century. To enhance our already significant collection of eighteenth- century limner and folk portraiture, we received a pair of portraits by the well-known itinerant painter Ammi Phillips (1788-1865). Robert J. Stickney bequeathed to the Society these portraits of Dutchess County residents, Mr. and Mrs. Peleg Pelton, painted in oil on canvas in 1825. It is gratifying that several important twentieth-century works of art were donated to the Society in 1984, demonstrating the recog­ nition of our need to supplement our collections with contempo­ rary material. One of Childe Hassam's sparkling New York street scenes, Flags, 57th Street, Winter, a 1918 work of oil on canvas, came to us from the estate of Julia B. Engel. From the estate of Malvina Hoffman, through the good offices of Barbara M. Hoffman, we received a total of thirty-two plaster portrait sculptures by Malvina Hoffman. From Dr. Maury P. Leibovitz, we received eleven bronze and terra cotta busts by Jo Davidson. Hoffman and David­ son are considered the leading portrait sculptors of the twentieth century. This group of sculptures records, with vivid naturalism, the distinguished features of important figures in the political, economic, and cultural circles of early twentieth-century America. Included in the collection are Hoffman's sculptures of Katharine Cornell and Marshall Field and Davidson's busts of William Paley, Fiorello LaGuardia, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

27 The purchases of the year included a silver presentation cup made in 1841 in New York by William Adams; a portrait of Grover Cleveland, former Governor of New York and President of the United States, by the noted American painter Eastman Johnson; and two watercolor views of Niagara Falls painted in the nineteenth century by William James Bennett (c. 1784-1844). Original watercolors by Bennett, a British-born artist and early documenter of American topography, are extremely rare. These works complement engraved impressions of the same views al­ ready in the collections of the Society's Print Room. The purchases of the painting and watercolors were made possible by the Bryan Fund. In September, 1984, Ella M. Foshay joined the staff as Curator of Painting and Sculpture. A former Assistant Professor of Art and American Culture at Vassar College and Guest Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she is the author of Reflections of Nature: Flowers in American Art, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1984. Dr. Foshay received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. A full-time conservator of paintings, Holly Hotchner began work at the Society in October, 1984. A graduate of Trinity College, Ms. Hotchner received her advanced training in conser­ vation at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and worked previously at The Tate Gallery, London, the Hirschhorn Museum, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is establish­ ing a core program to renovate, equip, and staff a conservation studio at the Society, and drawing up a list of priorities for its use.

28 Public Programs and Special Events, 1983-84 |f % '«££

For many years, the Society was known for its weekly concerts: We evoked pleasant memories of this tradition in April and May of 1983 with "An American Heritage Music Festival," organized in cooperation with Columbia University's Music Performance Program. The Festival consisted of three concerts on consecutive Thursday evenings. Howard Shanet of Columbia conducted two of the programs, one featuring a full orchestra and the other an ensemble of twenty string musicians. Columbia's resident string quartet played at the third concert. This series culminated a busy agenda of events held during the late winter and early spring of 1983. Four lectures on aspects of American painting accompanied our exhibition "A Celebration: American Landscape Painting, Genre Art and Drawing." A second series, consisting of three lectures, discussed the architectural his­ tory of New York City and State. Several other lectures during the late winter and spring attracted interested and enthusiastic audi­ ences. Among these I should mention David Dumas' discussion of the settling of the American West and Frederick Nichols' marvelous survey of Thomas Jefferson's architectural accomplishments. The opening in May of "The World of Tiffany: The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Lamps," provided the occasion for two days of celebration, including a gala preview and a special members' reception. Throughout the summer, the late Dr. Egon Neustadt gave a series of gallery talks about his Tiffany collection. Two of the highlights of the late spring, a lecture by David McCullough on May 15 and a scholarly conference on May 20-21, illustrate rather different facets of our institutional personality. David McCullough—the prize-winning author of The Great Bridge, a history of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge—saluted that structure on the occasion of its centennial. Accompanied by pianist Ed Wise, Mr. McCullough interspersed readings and songs in his tribute to one of New York's most striking and beloved mon­ uments. Five days later, we held the first scholarly conference in our history. Eleven major papers were presented at "New Ap-

29 proaches to the History of Colonial and Revolutionary New York." Nearly 200 scholars and laymen registered for the program, an ex­ traordinary response for such an event. As a jazz quartet played in the background, our annual Straw­ berry Festival in June marked the opening of "The Esmark Col­ lection of Currier & Ives," as well as being the occasion for our members to meet one another and partake of the traditional straw­ berries and cream. During the fall, we offered our members a three-day tour of the Hudson River valley, organized in cooperation with The Magazine ANTIQUES. In addition to Clermont, the Livingston Family home throughout much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Boscobel, a Federal-style mansion, and Olana, Frederic Church's estate — all of which are regularly open to the public—the group was privileged to visit two private houses: a restored Dutch farm house c. 1720, and a Hudson River villa c. 1820. The tour con­ cluded in New Paltz, New York, with a walk through the Hugue­ not Street Historic District, considered to be America's oldest street with its original houses still standing. The election of Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor as Chairman of the Society's Pintard Fellows highlighted this important group's annual meeting in the fall. The Fellows also previewed our exhibition "Artists' Views of Central Park, 1814-1914." A reception the follow­ ing day brought the participants in the World Conference on Olm­ sted Parks to the Society, for the public opening of the Central Park exhibition. Also in the fall, we hosted three talks by noted scholars. In honor of our exhibition on Francis Parkman's France and England in North America, Daniel Aaron—Professor Emeritus of English at Harvard University and President of the Library of America— discussed the early adventures of Parkftian and Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Lawrence Goodwyn of Duke University addressed the subject "Thinking Seriously About Democracy," and Professor Wilson Carey McWilliams of Rutgers University inquired into "Citizen Education and the Constitution." Teresa Bernstein reminisced about the New York art scene and many of her contemporaries—including Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, and Mark Rothko—at the opening in October of "New

30 York Themes: Paintings and Prints by William Meyerowitz and Theresa Bernstein." In November, an impromptu speech by silent movie star Blanche Sweet delighted our members and guests at the opening of "Lights, Camera, Action: New York's Silent Film Studios." To further expand upon the theme of this exhibition, on three Sunday afternoons during November and December our auditorium filled as we showed silent films made in New York, including America, by D. W. Griffith, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore. In December, the Nieuw Nederlande Consort presented tradi­ tional carols in Dutch and English at our annual St. Nicholas Day celebration for our members. Developing initiatives begun in 1983, 1984 brought a full sched­ ule of lectures, films, and concerts offered in conjunction with our varied program of exhibitions. Our newly, inaugurated volunteer program trained docents to present gallery tours, and supplied much-needed assistance to all departments of the Society. Our tra­ ditional celebrations—the Strawberry Festival and the St. Nicholas Festival—brought imaginative performances before our members, and our second annual scholarly conference attracted advanced students of American history for two days of intellectual inquiry. Continuing our policy of offering programs relating to current exhibitions, the Department of Public Programs presented an am­ bitious schedule of lectures, concerts, and films keyed to particular shows. Seven lectures, a concert, and six films accompanied "New York and the China Trade," including an introductory lecture by guest curator David S. Howard and "Gotham to Cathay: Songs and Yarns of die New York China Trade," presented by Stuart Frank, Director of the Kendall Whaling Museum, and Mary Mal- loy of the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts. Four lec­ tures were offered to augment "A Pageant of Heraldry in Britain and America," including talks by two very special visitors from Great Britain—Sir A. Colin Cole, Garter King of Arms, and Peter Gwynn-Jones, Lancaster Herald of Arms. Five films that featured the Statue of Liberty were shown to accompany "Visions of Lib­ erty," including Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur and Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant. "Lost in the Shuffle" was the occasion to present four films, and six classic films were shown in conjunction with

31 "Temperance Movements in America." Two lectures were pre­ sented to accompany "The Baroness Hyde de Neuville: Sketches in America, 1807-1822." The remainder of the year's lectures focused on broader cultural and historical themes: two on "Americans at Play," three concerning "Americans on the Water," including "The Titanic" given by Society Trustee Walter Lord, and three under the general rubric "Reflections on New York Culture." In all twenty-one lectures and twenty-one films were presented, surely marking the Society as one of New York's more active cultural institutions. In addition, we have continued our renewed program of Sunday afternoon concerts. On six Sundays in 1984, visitors were offered a free concert in our auditorium. Taking advantage of the city's wealth of musical talent, we presented a wide range of vocal and instrumental music from the Baroque period to the present. To further expand the themes of the exhibition "New York and the China Trade," Dr. Conrad E. Wright and Dr. William Pencak organized a scholarly conference entitled "New York and the Rise of Capitalism." In two days of stimulating discussion, fourteen scholarly papers were presented to an audience of 150 graduate students, professors, and interested historians. We thus continue our tradition of supporting scholarly inquiry, providing a forum for new ideas as well as the resources for their development. As they do each year, the Strawberry Festival and the St. Nicholas Festival brought our members into the Society for stim­ ulating and convivial events. In June, those who attended the Strawberry Festival were treated to a performance of parlor songs gleaned from our large collection of sheet music—organized and performed by Nancy Groce—followed by the traditional dish of strawberries and cream. During the winter holiday season, young and old alike were entertained by a lively magician at our annual St. Nicholas Festival. An outstanding innovation in 1984 was our volunteer program, which attracted forty hard-working friends who assisted us in our efforts to utilize our resources fully. From high school students to retirees, these individuals gave unstintingly of their time, contrib­ uting many services essential to the success of the Society's pro­ gram. More than a dozen docents completed a thorough training

32 program, and went on to give some one hundred tours of both permanent and temporary exhibitions to nearly 2,000 visitors in adult and school groups. Their enthusiastic interpretation of our exhibitions created an atmosphere of excitement throughout the museum, enlivening our galleries and providing a memorable experience to our visitors. Other volunteers worked in the library, the reception area, the development office, and in the museum store, accomplishing a range of tasks from research to guest ser­ vices. We look forward to the future contributions of our volun­ teers, who have quickly made themselves essential to our programs and activities. With hard-working staff and volunteers, the Society looks forward to an even more active schedule of programs in 1985. As our docents develop increased expertise in additional areas of our collections, the public will be offered more tours through more galleries than ever before. And in association with our active exhi­ bition program, we will see more lectures and films, as well as another scholarly conference and additional concerts. We thus con­ tinue to fulfill our responsibility to interpret our history to the general public, disseminating information as well as creating an atmosphere congenial to its assimilation and appreciation.

James B. Bell, DIRECTOR

33 Report of the Treasurer

Current Funds — Unrestricted

The income and expenditures of the Current Funds — Unrestricted of the Society for the years 1983 and 1984 were as follows:

Income: 1983 1984 Revenue from invested funds—net $ 665,059 $ 693,840 Contributions, bequests, and grants 87,108 223,406 Members' dues 63,437 143,671 Library fees and service charges 10,125 6,158 Royalties and reproduction rights 16,096 27,792 Rental income — net 27,000 27,000 Sale of books, catalogs, etc. 41,446 96,520 Sale of photographs and photostats 39,114 44,322 Catering -0- 57,000 Real Estate Option income 50,000 -0- Admission Contributions — net 116,006 88,391 Accession sales 8,676 5,041 Miscellaneous Income 7,055 26,964 Total Income $1,131,122 $1,440,105

Expenditures: Salaries and employee benefits $1,396,404 $1,505,660 Pension payments 2,652 2,652 Professional services 202,940 138,175 Electricity, gas, and steam 395,115 315,329 Building and equipment maintenance 123,199 120,845 Storage space 13,038 12,721

34 Administrative and developmental expenses 206,073 141,544 Material purchased for resale 20,088 49,367 Insurance 53,373 64,187 Equipment rental 16,117 44,173 Library expenses 24,168 28,477 Exhibition costs 277,153 112,648 Printing 64,431 23,471 Members' services 35,241 11,200 Photograph, microfilm, and Xerox copying costs 16,780 11,410 Public Relations 40,460 51,999 Miscellaneous 24,608 22,518 Total Expenditures $2,911,840 $2,656,376 Excess of Expenditures $1,780,718 $1,216,271 Transfer from Board Restricted Current Funds $1,780,718 1,216,271 Current Funds — Board Restricted

Memorials, special funds, long term investments, and special reserves Statement of Changes in Fund Balances

1983 1984 Fund Balances, as of January 1 ),916,902 U17.531

Increase: Net profit on sales of securities 1,064,317 375,353 Transfer to current funds 18,500 21,500 $10,999,719 $ 9,514,384

Decrease: Library and Museum accessions 79,603 19,934 Transfer to current funds—Unrestricted 1,780,718 1,216,271

35 Transfer to Land, Building, and Equipment Fund 21,867 14,124 Fund Balances, as of December 31 $ 9,117,531 $ 8,264,055 Accounted for by: Memorial funds-principal $ 4,283,273 4,283,273 Special funds-principal 202,014 202,013 Special funds —income 105,387 130,541 Accumulated net gain on sales of investments—net of transfers 4,526,857 3,648,228 Total $ 9,117,531 $ 8,264,055

Land, Building, and Equipment Fund

Statement of Changes in Fund Balance 1983 1984 Fund Balances, as of January 1 $ 1,663,168 $ 1,564,199

Increase: Transfer from investment account 23,367 32,186

Decrease: Depreciation 122,336 124,370 Fund Balances-December 31 $ 1,564,199 $ 1,472,015

Current Funds — Restricted and Endowment

[Exclusive of the Bryan and Harper Funds] Statement of Changes in Fund Balances

1983 1984 Fund Balances, as of January 1 $ 1,256,772 $ 1,312,512

Income: Pintard Fellows dues and contributions 17,150 14,450

36 Income allocated from unrestricted operating account 27,918 .27,710 Contributions and grants 350,402 312,477 Miscellaneous 78 -0- Totallncome 395,548 354,637 $ 1,652,320 $ 1,667,149

Expenditures: Salaries and employee benefits 66,067 132,264 Cataloguing 54,765 41,835 Museum accessions 15,442 1,204 Library accessions 10,488 6,167 Capitalized expenditures -0- 18,062 Public Relations -0- 3,744 Travel 11,048 -0- Expenses allocated to unrestricted operating account 18,500 18,500 Conservation 2,500 4,086 Exhibition expenses 159,498 105,597 Miscellaneous 1,500 3,405 Total Expenditures 339,808 334,864 Fund Balances at End of Year, as of December 31 $1,312,512 1,332,285 Accounted for by: Endowment and memorial funds— principal $ 191,491 $ 191,491 Special funds—principal 692,752 694,252 Special funds —income 121,393 135,818 Special reserves 306,876 310,724 Total $1,312,512 $1,332,285

37 Harper Funds

Statement of Changes in Fund Balannces 1983 1984 Income: Dividends $ 21,767 $ 23,113 Interest 23,990 34,778 Profit (Loss) on Sales of Securities 26,805 (8,653) Total Income $ 72,562 49,238

Expenditures: Purchase of books 23,650 125 Net Increase 48,912 49,113 Fund Balance at Beginning of Year— s January 1 $753,937 $802,849 Fund Balance at End of Year— as of December 31 $802,849 $851,962

Bryan Funds

Statement of Changes in Fund Balances 1983 1984 Income: Dividends $ 30,648 $ 42,793 Interest 65,730 61,254 Profit (Loss) on sale of securities 43,446 (40,367) Total $ 139,824 $ 63,680

Disbursements: Purchase of paintings 75,580 98,950 Conservation -0- -0- Net Increase (Decrease) 64,244 (35,270) Fund Balance at Beginning of Year — January 1 $1,391,423 $1,455,667 Fund Balance at End of Year as of December 31 $1,455,667 $1,420,397

38 Conservator Holly Hotchner (at center) at work in the Society's newly refurbished Con­ servation Studio. Photograph by Wayne David Geist.

39 Memorial Funds — Board Restricted

The following funds established by bequests and gifts to the Society, without restrictions, are kept intact as memorials:

Principal Isaiah Thomas Fund, bequest, 1832 $ 300 Elizabeth DemiltFund, bequest, 1849 5,000 Seth Grosvenor Fund, bequest, 1858 10,000 DavidE. Wheeler Fund, bequest, 1870 , 1,000 Thomas Barron Fund, bequest, 1875 ' 10,000 Richard E. Mount Fund, bequest, 1880 1,000 Edward Bill Fund, bequest, 1884 5,000 Augustus Schell Fund, bequest, 1884 5,000 Mary Rogers Fund, bequest, 1891 '* 1,000 James Francis Evans Fund, bequest, 1893 1,000 Henry KeteltasFund, bequest, 1898 5,000 CharlesP. Daly Fund, bequest, 1900 5,000 Maria Branson Mount Fund, bequest, 1901 1,000 Eugene Augustus Hoffman Memorial Fund, bequest, 1902 50,000 Founders'Fund, subscribed by members, with initiation and life membership fees, in 1906 .10,000 Charlotte A. Mount Fund, bequest, 1906 2,000 Amos F. Eno Fund, gift, 1908 20,000 Albert Gallatin Memorial Fund, gift, Frederic Gallatin, 1909 1,000 John Alsop King Memorial Fund, bequest of his daughter, Mary Rhinelander King, 1909 10,000 Caroline Phelps Stokes Fund, bequest, 1910 1,000 William Axtell DePeyster and Mary Beekman DePeyster Memorial Fund, bequest of their daughters, Cornelia Beekman DePeyster and Catherine A. DePeyster, 1911 614,713 Memorial Funds of the Founder and Officers of the Society, set aside by the Society in 1913-14 from the proceeds of the sale of the old building, as Memorials of the Founder, John Pin­ tard, and the first twelve Presidents of the Society 27,000 Clarence Storm Fund, gift of his mother, Mrs. Charles Eustis Orvis, 1915 1,000 Gerard Beekman Fund, bequest, 1918 5,000 Patrons'Fund, gift ofJosep h F. Loubat, 1921 5,000 George W. Van SlyckFund, bequest, 1922 54,806

40 Hamilton B. Tompkins Fund, bequest, 1923 2,984 TheodoreF. Sanxay Fund, bequest, 1926 5,000 Joseph F Loubat Memorial Fund, bequest, 1927 10,000 Joseph F. Sabin Fund, bequest, 1927 500 Ellen King Fund, bequest, 1928 50,720 Mrs. Charles D. Sinclair Fund, bequest, 1929 100 Anna Pine Decatur Parsons Fund, bequest, 1930, of remainder interest in real estate at 24 East 42nd Street, N.Y.C unvalued John E. WhitakerFund, bequest, 1930 12,344 Fellowship Fund, gift of Robert E. Dowling, 1931 1,000 EdwardBement Fund, bequest, 1932 973 ArthurH. Masten Fund, bequest, 1935 5,000 The Thompson Fund, bequests of Elizabeth Gardiner Thompson, Charles Griswold Thompson, and Mary Gardiner Thompson, received in 1935 to 1943 4,633,916 FrederickF. Durand Fund, bequest, 1936 5,000 AlanR. HawleyFund, bequest, 1938 1,000 Carrie E. Karstens Fund, bequest, 1938 1,000 Edwin W. OrvisFund, bequest, 1939 2,000 Cornelia Livingston Pell Fund, bequest, 1939 1,500 Arthur A. Jones Fund, gift, 1943 2,000 George A. Zabriskie Fund, gifts, 1943,1946,1950 5,000 Samuel V. Hoffman Fund, bequest, 1944 5,000 Isabella Vachi Cox Fund, bequest, 1947 ,.... 500 John C.JuhringFund, bequest, 1947 2,000 Rodney W. Williams Fund, gift, 1955 10,000 IrvingS. Olds Fund, bequest, 1963 15,000 EdithM. K. Wetmore, bequest, 1966 10,000 CharlesE. Dunlap, bequest, 1967,1968,1969,1970,1971 235,142 Thomas W. Streeter, bequest, 1967 75,000 Hall Park McCullough, bequest, 1967,1971 21,185 Forsyth Wickes Estate, gift, 1967 11,000 Mary MacKaye Greenwood, bequest, 1969 10,000 MargaretL. Brown, gift, 1973 3,397 PatriciaHurdTrust, gift, 1975 10,000 Alexander O. Vietor, gift, 1981 { 1,100 $6,001,180 Less: Portion invested in Museum; not valued in accounting records 1,717,907 Total $4,283,273

41 Special Funds — Board Restricted

The principal of the following Special Funds amounting to $202,014 has been kept intact by the Board of Trustees, the income of which is not ap­ plied to general expenses but used only for certain purposes according to the express wishes of the Board of Trustees.

Abbott-Lenox i

Endowment Funds — Donor Restricted

The following endowment funds established by bequests and gifts of the Society, are kept intact as memorials:

CharlesElihuSlocumFund, gift, 1914 $ 1,000 Colonel Andrew Warner Memorial Fund, bequest of his daughter, Kate Warner, 1914 100,000 Cornelia Post Mitchell Memorial Fund, bequest of her son, Albert PostMitchell, 1923 4,954 William Shane Fund, bequest, 1924 5,000 Richard VarkkDeyFund, bequest, 1927 10,000 Charles Eustis Orvis Memorial Fund, gift of his brother, Edwin W. Orvis, 1927 2,000 Victor Hugo Paltsits Fund, bequest, 1953 300 Herbert and Claiborne Pell Fund, gift, 1962 1,000 Thomas S. daPonte Memorial Fund, gift of his wife, Marcia daPonte, 1968-83 ,R , 9,000

42 The Carl Otto von Kienbusch Fund, in memory of Doris R. Morton, gift of Carl Otto von Kienbusch, 1976,1977 50,000 MargaretL. BrownFund, gift, 1978 3,238 FanetO.H. Chutzian Memorial Fund, 1978 5,000 Total $ 191,492

Special Funds — Donor Restricted

The principal of the Special Funds of The New-York Historical Society now totals $1,217,656, the income of which is not applied to general ex­ penses, but used only for certain purposes according to the express wish or provisions of the. various donors, and may be briefly enumerated as follows:

George Abeel Fund—1922, for the care of the Abeel family portraits $ 500 Beekman Relics Fund—1911, gift of Gerard Beekman for the care of the Beekman relics 1,000 Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., Fund—1950, bequest—articles to be exhibited by the Society at least once in each successive five years 15,000 Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., Memorial Fund—1961, bequest of Rey Hutchings Belknap for the care of the Belknap collec­ tion and the acquisition and addition to said collection of portraits of members of families already represented therein. The said collection to be exhibited as a whole to the public at least once in every two years 20,000 Margaret L. Brown Fund—1981, gift, for the care, preservation, and acquisition of manuscripts (1983) 15,949 (1984) 17,449 Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund—1967, for the upkeep of heir­ looms given to the Society by the settlor during her lifetime 5,000 Edward C. Delafield Fund—1954, gift in 1945 with accruals, to be used for publishing or adding to the Society's Living­ ston and Delafield manuscripts, or for such other pur­ poses as the Board of Trustees may deem appropriate ... 10,000

43 John Watts DePeyster Publication Fund—4858, consisting of 1,000 shares of which 850 have been sold, realizing $27,700, and increased by bequest in 1908 by $23,750, to defray, as far as possible, the expense of publishing the Collections of the Society 51,450 AsherB. DurandMemorial Fund—4936, bequest of Nora Durand Woodman, for the care of the Society's Durand paintings. 5,000 Louis Durr Gallery Fund—1882, for the purchase of pictures and the care of the Durr Gallery collection 8,000 Charles S. Fairchild Fund—1928, gift of his wife, for the care of relics and portraits donated by her .• 1,000 Lathrop Colgate Harper, Litt.D., Fund—1958, 1960, and 1961, bequest of Mabel Herbert Harper, three-fourths for the purchase in four equal amounts of (1) pre-1700 books, (2) 18th-century books, (3) 19th-century books over 100 years old, and (4) books on New York City and State over 100 years old, and additions to the Spanish-American War collection; and one-fourth for accruals to the fund 460,884 Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper Fund in Memory of Francis P. Harper — 1958-60, bequest of Mabel Herbert Harper, three- fourths for the purchase of books over 100 years old and one-fourth for accruals to the fund 62,520 John Divine Jones Fund—1874, 1878, for the publication of works relating to the early history of New York, and other American provinces 6,000 WilmerR. Leech Fund—1968-77, gift of Mrs. RobertJ. Malone for the purchase of manuscripts 8,500 Carl Otto von Kienbusch Fund—1977, for the purchase of manu­ scripts 50,000 Randall J. LeBoeufJr., Bequest—1976, for preservation and ex­ hibition of collection 5,000 Irving McKesson Memorial Fund—4963, gift, for the purchase of manuscripts 5,000 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund—1977, for Library use . 175,000 Mr. and Mrs. J. William Middendorf II Fund—1967, gift, for the purchase of prints 1,000 Alice M. Muhlenfels Fund—1963, bequest, for the purchase of manuscripts 5,000 Naval History Society Fund—1925, gift, for the care and increase of the Naval History Society Library, John S. Barnes Foundation ' JH' 15,753

44 Howland Gallatin Pell Binding Fund—1936, gift of his father, Howland Pell, for the binding of books 2,000 Stephen Whitney Phoenix Fund—1876, 1878, bequest for the in­ crease of the Phoenix Collection of Heraldry and Geneal­ ogy by the purchase of books 15,000 Schuyler Fund—1916, gift of the Misses Georgina and Louisa Lee Schuyler for the care of the Schuyler collection of por­ traits and relics and for other purposes 1,000 Fund of the Sons of Rhode Island in New York—1866, gift, for the purchase of works relating to the history of Rhode Island . 600 John Jay Watson Fund—1958, bequest of Eliza J. Watson, for the purchase of original American paintings of historical significance 150,000 Susan M. Watson Binding Fund—1909, gift, for the binding of books 5,000 James B. Wilbur Fund—1935, bequest, for the purchase of books, manuscripts, and prints 100,000 George A. Zabriskie Binding Fund—1941-54, gifts and bequest, for the binding of books 15,000 Total, 1983 $1,216,156 Total, 1984 $1,217,656

Respectfully submitted Margaret W. Platten, TREASURER

The financial records of the Society for the calendar years 1983 and 1984 have been audited by Messrs. Boyce, Hughes & Farrell, Certified Public Accountants, whose report is on file in the Director's Office.

45 Necrology

Rodney W. Williams It is with deep regret that The New-York Historical Society records the death on February 19, 1984, of Mr. Rodney W. Williams, an Honorary Trustee and Life Member of the Society. Born in New York in 1892, Mr. Williams was educated at the Gilman School in Baltimore and at Yale University. In 1916 he joined the firm of Tucker, Anthony and R. L. Day, Inc., as an office boy. He served the firm as floor partner in charge of trading at the New York Stock Exchange from 1922 until his retirement in 1936. During World War II, he resumed his post at the brokerage house. Mr. Williams was a Limited Partner of Tucker, Anthony, and R. L. Day, Inc., between 1945 and 1969. Mr. Williams was always interested in historic preservation and gave his leadership to the Charleston Historical Society, Charleston, South Carolina, and the New Marlborough Historical Society, New Marlborough, Massachusetts. In 1952 Mr. Williams was elected a Trustee of the Society, and served until 1968, when he was elected an Honorary Trustee. During his term as a Trustee, he served ably on the Committee of Finance. The death of Mr. Williams deprives us of a gentleman whose loyalty to and support of the Society were always evident. He will be greatiy missed.

Dr. Egon Neustadt It is with deep regret that The New-York Historical Society records the death on April 11, 1984, of Dr. Egon Neustadt, a major bene­ factor of the Society. Dr. Neustadt, one of the largest private collectors of Tiffany lamps, was born in Vienna, Austria, where he studied medicine at

46 the University of Vienna. Shortly after his graduation, he emi­ grated to New York and pursued a career in orthodontia. His collection of Tiffany lamps began in the 1930s, when he and his wife, Hildegard, saw one in a Greenwich Village antique store. Over the next two decades, they added extensively to the collec­ tion until it comprised not only lamps, but also Tiffany stained glass windows, vases, deck sets, and other items. Dr. Neustadt also bought the last remaining glass that was used in Louis Comfort Tiffany's factory in Corona, Queens. His 1970 book, The Lamps of Tiffany, is now recognized as a major reference work on the subject. On May 27, 1983, the Society opened a major loan exhibition of Dr. Neustadt's collection, entitled "The World of Tiffany: The Egon Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Lamps." On January 24, 1984, Dr. Neustadt made it possible for the Society to keep the Tiffany works permanendy, when he donated the collection to us. On the occasion of the gift, New York City's Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Bess Myerson said "The New-York Historical Society and New York City have found the pot of gold. Through the extraordinary and caring generosity of Dr. Egon Neustadt, our city will keep a significant aspect of its cultural birthright. Tiffany was quintessential!/ a New York artist; these glass works are local products, made in Corona, Queens. The New-York Historical Society will keep this, the world's largest collection of Tiffany glass, intact as part of its permanent collection, so that generations of New Yorkers can be warmed by its magical glow." The Society was gready enriched by Dr. Neustadt's gift, and we will miss his interest and enthusiasm for his collection, and for the Society.

47 Memorial List: 1983 and 1984

Benefactor Mrs. Thomas S. DaPonte Dr. Egon Neustadt Lindley Eberstadt Mrs. William T. Golden Sustaining Patron Townsend M. McAlpin Mrs. Robert S. Beekman Charles C. Morchand Whitney North Seymour Patrons Dorothy Valentine Smith Clara S. Peck Mrs. Walter S. Poor Pintard Fellow Rodney W. Williams Francis T.P Plimpton

Life Members Associate Members Mrs. John Griffeth Booton Alfred M. Greenfield William J. Carter Henry B. Thompson

48 Special Members of The New-York Historical Society

Revised To December 31, 1984

Honorary Members Mrs. Lloyd Kirkham Garrison 1972 Rene" Comte de Chambrun, 1957 Mrs. Benjamin Greenspan, 1975 W. Averell Harriman, 1956 Whitney Hartshorne, 1979 Hispanic Society of America, 1907 Mrs. Alexander Duer Harvey, Grayson L. Kirk, 1954 1972 Philippe Sahune Comte de Mrs. John Kean, 1973 Lafayette, 1957 Mrs. Randall J. LeBoeuf, Jr., Malcolm Wilson, 1974 1978 R. McAllister Lloyd, 1970 Benefactors Mrs. Hayward F. Manice, 1978 Dr. Robert S. Beekman 1978 J. William Middendorf, II, 1972 Robert G. Goelet, 1978 Mrs. Rodman B. Montgomery, Mrs. Robert Walton Goelet 1978 1976 Mrs. John E. Parsons, 1977 Sustaining' Patrons Mrs. Margaret W Platten, 1982 Miss Isabel Shults, 1975 Mrs. Hilary Barratt-Brown, 1980 Frank S. Streeter, 1972 Mrs. Henry S. Hendricks, 1972 Eugene Hoffman Walker,* 1975 Mrs. Harry S. Irons, 1972 Mrs. Gratia R. Waters, 1966 John G. McCullough, 1972 A. Pennington Whitehead, 1972 Rodman C. Rockefeller, 1972 John Rutherfurd, Jr. 1974 * Patron by succession Mrs. Ethel McC. Scott, 1972 Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor, 1972 Fellows Thomas W. Dewart, 1950 Patrons Goodhue Livingston, Jr., 1960 Miss Rosalie Fellows Bailey, 1947 Harold A. Shircliffe, 1954 Mrs. Mary A. Brandwein, 1977 Miss Margaret L. Brown, 1973 Jarvis Cromwell, 1967

49 Society President Robert G. Goelet (at left), and Director Dr. James B. Bell (at right), help Benefit Chairman Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor cut the Society's 180th birthday cake, at the gala benefit party in November, 1984. Photograph by Jeanne Trudeau.

50 Life Members Henry J. Campbell, 1947 Mrs. Thomas A. Cassilly, 1971 Dr. Abram J. Abeloff, 1942 Dr. Daniel Cadin, 1953 Clare Adams, 1944 William Astor Chanler, 1953 Mrs. Frank L. Adams, 1949 Mrs. Ray Olive Clark, 1976 Hon. Richard S. Aldrich, 1965 Craig Colgate, Jr., 1963 Mrs. Albert H. Aldridge, 1963 Dr. John A. Cook, 1974 Hale R. Allen, 1972 Daniel Cowin, 1973 Andrew Alpern, 1973 John M. Crawford, Jr., 1976 Charles L. Aquilina, 1975 Charlotte Cunningham, 1964 W. Graham Arader, III, 1977 Dr. Paul Cushman, 1973 Brig. Gen. Donald Armstrong, Robert A. Cutter, 1964 1921 Col. Francis T. Armstrong, 1936 George Dangerfield, 1958 J. Sinclair Armstrong, 1938 Sylvia G.L. Dannett, 1969 Abigail Davis, 1976 Marey L. Bailey, 1975 Mr. & Mrs. Shelby Cullom Davis, Thomas Bailey, 1963 1945 Mrs. Harry Baker, 1964 Mrs. Alvin Deutsch, 1973 Louis C. Baker, 1975 Mr. & Mrs. C. Douglas Dillon, John T. Barber, 1955 1971 Dr. Robert S. Beekman, 1954 J. Richardson Dilworth, 1971 John E. Bilane, 1976 Charles V. Drew, 1963 Dr. Louis F. Bishop, 1934 Elizabeth Harrison Drew, 1963 Mrs. Alfred Elliott Bissell, 1963 Esther H. Dunn, 1972 Prof. William Leslie Blackwell, Mary Dunnigan,1960 1974 Mrs. James H. Durgin, 1960 James J. Blake, 1961 Linus F. DuRocher, 1961 Edward E. Block, 1975 Peter J. Blum, 1964 Richard Eberhart, 1963 Louis H. Blumengarten, 1975 Anthony Embriano, 1963 William R. Bogert, 1941 Mrs. William L. Estes, III, 1974 Mrs. Albert Boni, 1971 Mrs. Sterling F. Boos, 1958 Mrs. William Rodman Fay, 1974 Mrs. Walter Borten, 1967 Richard L. Feigen, 1975 Margaret L. Brown, 1960 Lawrence Fleischman, 1959 Elbert Budin, 1970 Griswold Forbes, 1940 Dr. Curt F. Buhler, 1958 Mrs. Robert Foster, 1960 Bern Kennedy Bullard, 1944 Bruce H. French, 1974 Frank A. Friedman, 1976

51 Mr. & Mrs. James P Gallatin, Robert Hendre Kelby, II, 1918 1964 William J. Kelley, 1977 Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Gamble, Robert C. Kennedy, 1972 Jr., 1983 Richard J. Koke, 1962 Rev. Donald L. Garfield, 1969 Mrs. William C. Kopper, 1958 Gen. & Mrs. James W. Gerard, 1973 Herbert J. Landar, 1968 Francis G. Goelet, 1962 Beverly F. Landauer, 1972 Arthur A. Goldberg, 1976 Dr. John K. Lattimer, 1975 Harmon H. Goldstone, 1972 Mrs. Charles C. Lawrence, 1975 Vera Julia Gordon, 1960 Vera Brodsky Lawrence, 1972 Mrs. Paul Gourary, 1966 Mr. & Mrs. Edward Lazare, 1963 James P. Gregory, Jr., 1976 Mrs. Thomas Bailey Lee, 1976 Dr. Richard W. Lenk, Jr., 1973 Mr. & Mrs. George C. Haas, 1954 .-Ann Harriet Leonard, 1974 Dr. Bernard H. Hall, 1976 Dr. James Lincoln, 1940 Mr. & Mrs. James H. Halpin, R. McAllister Lloyd, 1954 1970 Mr. & Mrs. Alfred L. Loomis, Jr. Cynthia Blyth Halsey, 1972 1972 William H. Hand, 1973 Edward J. Lucas, Jr., 1972 George DeLancey Hanger, 1964 Mrs. John Mason Harding, 1969 Richard Maass, 1973 Mr. & Mrs. John L. Hawkes, Mrs. Malcolm S. Mackay, 1943 1973 Mr. & Mrs. Peter L. Malkin, Mary B. Henderson, 1945 1982 Dr. & Mrs. James J. Heslin, 1964 Mr. & Mrs. Henry Bradley Katherine M. Home, 1960 Martin, 1973 William Benton Horton, 1934 Richard Harrison Martin, 1979 Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1958 John F. McCormack, Jr., 1972 William Henry Hyde, 1964 Cecile G. McGlynn, 1971 Malcolm Forbes McKesson, 1939 Donald Leigh James, 1976 Elsa Meininger, 1959 Dr. Sauljarcho, 1946 Nicholas Meyer, 1957 Charles Jockwig, 1972 Pearl Michaels, 1976 Prof. Charles W.Jones, 1953 John Dorrance Morrell, 1963 E. Powis Jones, 1971 Andrew B. Myers, 1964 Philip H.Jordan, Jr., 1962 Mrs. Halsted H. Myers, 1962

William W. Karatz, 1977 Richard J. Nachtsheim, 1974 John Kean, 1966 Edgar J. Nathan, III, 1948 Stewart B. Kean, 1966 Katherine V. Newsome, 1963

52 John P Nicholson, 1964 Corinne A. Sherman, 1904 Eugene H. Nickerson, 1931 Elizabeth Morris Smith, 1971 Mrs. Lawrence M.C. Smith, 1964 Josefina Olavario, 1965 Philip H. Snyder, 1969 Schuyler A. Orvis, Jr., 1937 Victor D. Spark, 1964 Dr. Joan L. Stachiw, 1963 K. Lawrence Parker, 1966 Mrs. Edward C. Sterling, 1973 James Parton, 1957 Robert A.M. Stern, 1977 Mrs. Michael E. Paterno, 1931 Chauncey D. Stillman, 1920 Dr. William G. Peacher, 1970 Edgar R. Stix, II, 1973 Mr. & Mrs. John H.G. Pell, 1925 Mrs. J.G. Phelps Stokes, 1962 August A. Perse, 1974 Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Straus, Mr. & Mrs. Donald C. Platten, 1971 1979 Thomas W Streeter, Jr., 1963 Raymond Polin, 1947 Mrs. Charles Szladits, 1972 Frank B. Porter, 1928 Mrs. Albert E. Powers, 1963 Jeffrey R. Tishman, 1975 Dr. Simon B. Poyta, 1972 Edmund Prentis, III, 1952 Jacob Jay Ulman, 1944

Thomas A. Raganati, 1958 Mrs. Edward R. Valentine, 1970 Mrs. David R. Reynolds, 1966 Claus Von Bulow, 1974 William W. Reese, 1963 Paul G. Reilly, 1964 John Baldwin Walker, Jr., 1928 Elizabeth M. Riley, 1969 Harry Edwin Ward, Jr., 1955 Mr. & Mrs. David Rockefeller, Walter Phelps Warren, 1970 1973 Edward B. Watson, 1966 Ellen M. T. Russell, 1970 Lawrence A. Wien, 1976 Julia Wightman, 1972 Harold M. Sack, 1974 Harold D. Williams, 1964 Chandler B. Saint, 1980 Robert F. Williams, 1959 Mrs. Edward J. Scheider, 1977 Mr. & Mrs. Lucius Wilmderding, William J. Schieffelin, Jr., 1953 Jr., 1957 Mr. & Mrs. Harry Schiff, 1964 R.L. Wilson, 1976 Stuart B. Schimmel, 1963 Dudley PK. Wood, 1963 Diane R. Schneider, 1974 Eric M. Wunsch, 1964 Mrs. Samuel Schwartz, 1974 Thomas F. Schweitzer, 1963 Dr. Matthew A. Zuckerbraun, Malcolm C. Selver, 1977 1975 George C. Seward, 1975 Constance D. Sherman, 1959

53 Pintard Associates Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Darby, III, 1983 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Forbes, Mrs. Clay Debevoise, 1972 1983 Eli Whitney Debevoise, 1984 William Jacobs, Jr., 1979 Noel Delaney, 1984 Mr. & Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller, Adelaide de Menil, 1984 1984 Mr. & Mrs. Hugo de Neufville, Mr. & Mrs. Leslie John Schreyer, 1973 1984 Mr. & Mrs. C. Douglas Dillon, 1971 Pintard Fellows Mr. & Mrs. George E. Doty, 1984 Mr. & Mrs. Neilson Abeel, 1980 Mrs. James H. Durgin, 1960 Douglas Abrahams, 1982 William H. Alexander, 1972 Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Edlow, Mr. & Mrs. Arthur G. Altschul, 1984 1971 Mr. & Mrs. Howard Epstein, 1982 Nathan S. Ancell, 1984 "Henry N. Ess, III, 1983

W.N. Banks, 1973 Laura M. Graham Forbes, 1964 Francis Bealey, 1983 William S. Friedman, 1979 Russell Beatie, Jr., 1980 J.L. Bingham, 1984 Lewis D. Gilbert, 1984 Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. Borer, 1978 J. Scott Glascock, 1982 L.R. Breslin.Jr., 1980 Mr. & Mrs. John B. Glass, Jr., Mr. & Mrs. Richard Breslow, 1982 1984 Estelle D. Brickel, 1983 William T. Golden, 1973 Dr. David Hall Brooks, 1975 Marilyn Gold-Gaston, 1984 Joan Bull, 1982 Dr. Richard B. Gould, 1980 Mrs. H. Morris Burrows, 1977 Charles M. Grace, 1982 Jane Ann Gross, 1984 Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Caldwell, 1980 George Guernsey, IV, 1983 Dr. Peter W. Carmel, 1980 Henrietta V. Carter, 1982 Lewis R.M. Hall, 1976 Guy Cary, 1967 Mr. & Mrs. James H. Halpin, Mr. & Mrs. Henry D. Clarke, Jr., 1970 1984 Helen Leale Harper, 1978 Mrs. Julian Coleman, 1983 Henry Hart, 1982 Anne V. Hartwell, 1984 Suzanne B. Danet, 1984 Mr. & Mrs. Harry W. Mr. & Mrs. Edmondo Danon, Havemeyer, 1969 1977 Joseph H. Hazen, 1984

54 Rosemary Hilb, 1984 Howard P. Milstein, 1984 Frederick D. Hill, 1983 Shirley I. Moore, 1984 Frank Horwitz, 1984 Mr. & Mrs. Edward Munves, Jr., Marion C. Howe, 1980 1978 David Stewart Hull, 1983 Andrew B. Myers, 1964

Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Irwin, Kenneth Nebenzahl, 1972 1973 Kenneth M. Newman, 1967 Mr. & Mrs. John N. Irwin, II, 1967 Mr. & Mrs. Jay J. Pack, 1980 Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Palitz, 1984 Mr. & Mrs. N. Dudley Johnson, 1978 James E. Quackenbush, 1982 Ruth E. Jorgensen, 1984 Robert C. Quinlan, 1983

Mr. & Mrs. Hamilton F. Kean, Allen Walker Read, 1963 1982 William W. Reese, 1963 Norma Skurka Kimmel, 1983 MaryAnn S. Roston, 1984 Mr. & Mrs. David Kirschenbaum, 1967 G.M. Schieffelin, 1984 Dr. Richard J. Kossmann, 1983 Mr. & Mrs. Janos Scholz, 1984 Mrs. Arnold Schwartz, 1984 Emily Landau, 1984 Carl A. Schwarz, Jr., 1980 Mr. & Mrs. Edward Lazare, 1977 Francois Sicart, 1983 Mrs. Randall LeBoeuf, Jr., 1979 David Solomon, 1980 Mr. & Mrs. Joel B. Leff, 1984 Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Spadanuta, Dr. Maury P. Leibovitz, 1984 1980 Mr. & Mrs. David M. Lindley, William W Stahi,Jr., 1983 1978 Mr. & Mrs. Edward D. Sternat, E. Townsend Look, 1973 1984 Walter Lord, 1967 Mr. & Mrs. James Stewart- Gordon, 1984 James T. Maher, 1970 Henry S. Streeter, 1967 Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin, 1974 Thomas W. Streeter, 1969 Grant C. Manheim, 1974 Michael T. Martin, 1983 Michael A. Taylor, 1984 Mr. & Mrs. Dennis D. McCrary, Mrs. Fred Thompson, 1976 1981 James C. McMahon, Jr., 1983 Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor, 1972 Mrs. Ward Melville, 1978 Mr. & Mrs. Richard R. Vietor, Leonard L. Milberg, 1977 1984

55 Madison-Adaline von Wolfgang, 1984 Mrs. John Campbell White, 1982 A. Pennington Whitehead, 1972 Arnold Whitridge, 1967 Lawrence A. Wien, 1981 Phillip M. Winegar, 1984 Eric M. Wunsch, 1964 Richard S. Zimmerman, 1981

Associate Members Mrs. Robert Strong Adams, 1950 Dr. Edward P. Alexander, 1936 Miss Gertrude Annan, 1949 Miss Marjorie G. Cathcart, 1925 James H.R. Cromwell, 1925 Wayne M. Faunce, 1951 Mrs. W. Huntting Howell, 1950 Louis C. Jones, 1946 David Kirschenbaum, 1975 Dr. Richard P. McCormick, 1951 Harold McCracken, 1949 Charles Nagel, 1951 Edward P. O'Reilly, 1942 William H. O'Reilly, 1942 Dr. Albert E. Parr, 1944 Joseph S. Pendleton, 1925 Dr. James Lawrence Pool, 1949 Stephen T. Riley, 1962 Laurence P. Roberts, 1939 Bard Pendleton Rogers, 1941 Matthew Rombey, 1945 Abel I. Smith, Jr., 1945 Miss Dorothy Stimson, 1942 Mrs. Thomas W. Streeter, 1967 Alexander J. Wall, 1951

56 Donors

Individual Contributions, 1983-1984

New Patrons Mr. & Mrs. Donald C. Platten Mr. & Mrs. Samuel P. Reed Mr. & Mrs. James T. Flexner Mr. 6k Mrs. George T. Mr. & Mrs. Christopher C. Scharffenberger Forbes Mr. & Mrs. G.M. Schieffelin Mr. & Mrs. Albert L. Key Mr. & Mrs. Frank S. Streeter Mrs. William Meyerowitz Charles J. Tanenbaum Dr. & Mrs. Robert Lee Patterson Eric P. Widing Mr. Edmund J. Retkewick Mr. & Mrs. Lucius Wilmerding, Jr- Friends Mr. & Mrs. John G. Winslow Dr. Robert S. Beekman Rudolf G.Wunderlich Mr. & Mrs. James J. Beha E. Lisk Wyckoff, Jr. Mrs. Crawford J. Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Jarvis Cromwell Other Donors Mrs. Thomas S. DaPonte Douglas Abrahams Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Adams, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Goelet Malcolm Aldrich, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Leon Hess Herbert K. Alexander Mrs. John Jay Ide Eleanor Allaway Jerry Jackson Mrs. C. Robert Allen, III Mrs. John Kean Katherine Allen Mr. & Mrs. Russell Lynes Mollie Alpert Mr. & Mrs. Hayward F. Manice Charlotte F. Andress Mrs. Ward Melville Gertrude Annan Francis X. Morrissey, Sr. Sylvia Appelbaum Mrs. John E. Parsons J. Sinclair Armstrong Mr. & Mrs. Gordon B. Pattee Mr. & Mrs. Karekin Dr. & Mrs. Robert Lee Patterson Arzoomanian Mr. & Mrs. John H.G. Pell

57 Mrs. Vincent Astor Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Caldwell Isabel H. Ault Douglass Campbell James H. Awe Dr. Peter W Carmel Augustine H. Ayers Rose Carol Mr. & Mrs. Schuyler Chapin Katherine M. Babbitt Helen V. Chaplin Thomas A. Bachman Mrs. Ray Olive Clark Rosalie Fellows Bailey Mrs. Mark'H. Cohen Louis C. Baker Robert C. Collins Mr. & Mrs. George W Bardes Richard J. Concannon Mrs. Frank P. Barnes Georgia Beth Considine Mr. & Mrs. T.D. Battle Kevin Conway Dr. Dorothy G. Becker Philip W. Coombe Walter E. Beer, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. R.W Couper Miriam Berkowitz LaWanda Cox Henry Birnbaum Mr. & Mrs. Edward M. Cullman Mrs. Alfred Elliott Bissell Richard W. Bleecker Mr. & Mrs. James D. Dana Louis H. Blumengarten George Dangerfield Fon W. Boardman, Jr. Gerald P. Dawkins William R. Bogert Mrs. A. de Borchgrave George W. Bohlert Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Dec Maryann Bompartito Mr. & Mrs. Hugo de Neufville Hon. Dudley B. Bonsai Enrico Dessi Mr. & Mrs. James H. Brandi William Diebold, Jr. Mary A. Brandwein Mr. & Mrs. C. Douglas Dillon L.R. Breslin, Jr. J. Richards DUworth Mrs. W. Rice Brewster Mr. & Mrs. Peter R. Douglas Herbert Baer Brill Elizabeth Harrison Drew Dr. David Hall Brooks Mr. & Mrs. John R. Drexel, III Patrick Broome Margaret L. Brown Richard Eberhart Mr. Thatcher M. Brown Mrs. Albert I. Edelman Phillip A. Bruno Patrick J. Egan Mrs. Jackson Burke Mrs. A. Whitney Ellsworth Mrs. H. Morris Burrows Mrs. German H.H. Emory Donald F. Bush Mrs. William L. Estes, III Mr. & Mrs. J.E. Buder Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Evans Dr. Ann L. Buttenwieser Rosalie W. Byard Walter Fair Emily F. Fairchild

58 C. Sims Farr Van R. Halsey Mr. & Mrs. Morton Fearey Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein Stephen Fields Mrs. John Mason Harding Herbert M. Fontecilla James Harkey Mrs. Henry W. Ford Helen Leale Harper Edward S. Frese, Jr. Andrea S. Harris Suzanne S. Frisbie George D. Harris, Jr. William Lee Frost Marion O. Harris Michiko Fukuda Leontine Lyle Harrower Henry Hart Mr. & Mrs. James P. Gallatin Whitney Hartshorne Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Gamble, Jr. Bruce F.E. Harvey Mr. & Mrs. Barry H. Garfinkel Kenneth E. Hasbrouck Mr. & Mrs. Wendell Garrett Mr. & Mrs. John L. Hawkes Margot Gayle David P. Hawkins Juliana F. Gilheany Mrs. Walter H. Haydock Miriam Gitelson Mr. & Mrs. W.R. Hearst, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James W. Glanville Rhoda Hellman Ephraim Gleichenhaus Mary B. Henderson Mr. & Mrs. Irwin Glusker Rev. Donald W. Hendricks Francis G. Goelet Dr. & Mrs. James J. Heslin Dora Goldfarb Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Hill Charles Goldsmith Mrs. Edwin Hilson Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Goldstein Marli L. Hinckley Harmon H. Goldstone Robert Hoerle Ruth Goodman John K. Howat Mr. & Mrs. William K. Goolrick Alfred H. Howell Prof. Janice L. Gorn Allegra B. Hoxter Dr. Richard B. Gould George S. Hunsberger Charles M. Grace Dr. & Mrs. Martin D. Hyman Irving Grad Christopher Gray Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Irwin Maitland L. Griggs Lady Marie-Louise Grundy William Jacobs, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Henry B. Guthrie Prof. Irma B. Jaffe Arthur C. Gwynne, Jr. Donald Leigh James Marion E. Jemmott Hamilton Hadden Dorothy N. Johnson Lewis R.M. Hall Mr. & Mrs. N. Dudley Johnson Doris Halowitch Raymond Johnson Cynthia Blyth Halsey Mrs. Thomas S. Johnson

59 Mr. & Mrs. Cranston E. Jones Audrey B. Madison E. Powis Jones Orville Magoon Barbara Malek-Coffin Mr. & Mrs. Howard Kaplan Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin M. Whitney Keen Mr. & Mrs. Peter L. Malkin Mr. & Mrs. George A. Kellner. Jack Mandel Dorothy Kemper Berthe Manent Mr. & Mrs. Maximilian W. Nancy Manville Kempner Mr. & Mrs. William A. Peter L. Kennard Marquard Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Kimmel Elizabeth C. McCahill Michael Klasfeld Wade H. McCann Marcella H. Korff Joan McClure A.N. McFarlane Benjamin Laba Dorothy H. McGee Mary L. Lambert Diana Mcllvaine Beverly F. Landauer Peter Albert McKay William Ide Landauer Donald A. McQuade Quentin Lane Nava McUmber JoanV. Laskoff Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Menschel Mr. & Mrs. Justus B. Lawrence Mr. & Mrs. Harold B. Meyers Vera Brosky Lawrence Mr. & Mrs. J. William Mrs. Thomas Bailey Lee Middendorf, II Dr. James L. Leland Lion G. Miles Michael Lesk Mr. & Mrs. Edwin H. Miller Diane E. Levine Mr. & Mrs. Vinicio Mincin Dr. Leonard R. Levine Catherine J. Minuse C. Edwin LinviUe Jerone T. Moorer Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lipp Mr. & Mrs. John A. Morris Mr. & Mrs. Austin List Prof. Richard B. Morris Iris Logan Mr. Edmond N. Morse Mr, & Mrs. Joshua L. Logan Mr. & Mrs. Lester Morse Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Loll is Mrs. Carl M. Mueller Mrs. Robert London Margaretta Murphy Mrs. Alfred L, Loomis Walter Lord Edgar J. Nathan, III Myrtle K. Lovinger Theodore R. Nelson Arthur A. Nerson Richard Maass W.A. Newcomb Mildred B, Maclnnis Kenneth M. Newman Mrs. John Macomber Osgood Nichols

60 Donald R. Nickerson Mr. & Mrs. David Rockefeller Mr. & Mrs. Arthur CA. Nicol Frances B. Rosenberg Donald L. Nowlan Mr. & Mrs. Walter Rothschild, Jr. Sara Fine Rubenstein Mr. & Mrs. David G. Ober Richard L. Rutter Prof. Barbara Oberg Charles G. O'Connor Dr. Morris H. Saffron Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager Alvin Sandberg Rev. Msg. Patrick D. O'Flaherty Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Sarnoff Harold J. O'Neill William Schieffelin, Jr. Lou O'Neill Mr. & Mrs. Andrew C. Mr. & Mrs. John R. Opel Schirrmeister, Jr. Mrs. Samuel H. Ordway Louis Schucman Dodi Schultz Dr. & Mrs. Herbert Parsons Murray Schumach Katharine de B. Parsons Richard J, Schwartz Jerry E. Patterson Henry Schwerer Mr. & Mrs. William Patterson Mrs. Donald F. Sealy Patricia Pavlovich Elizabeth Shafer Nicholas Pellicciari Lillian Shatz Prof. William Pencak Constance D. Sherman Gerard Picl Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Sherwood Grace S. Plows Rosamond Sherwood Percy Preston, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Walter V. Shipley Mr. & Mrs. James D. Price Mrs. Carl Shirley David S. Proctor Rollin Shove John Pumleye Mr. & Mrs. Eric N. Shrubsole Mr. & Mr». Eben W. Pyne Isabel Shults Richard B. Sichel Doris G. Quinn Grant G. Simmons, Jr. Merle E. Simmons Philip A. Rabenau Abel I. Smith, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Radloff Dorothy Valentine Smith Thomas A. Raganati Elizabeth Morris Smith Mr. & Mrs. PerryT. Rathbone Kathleen Smith William Reese Marjorie A. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Willis Reese Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Smith Morgan S.A. Reichner Stephen Sondheim Mr. & Mrs. George E. Relyea Jack Stadler Mr. & Mrs. Donald H. Rivkin Mr. & Mrs. Gordon A. Stark Lillian Robinson Margaret Stearns

61 Madeleine B. Stern Louis B. Warren Robert A.M. Stern Walter Phelps Warren Phyllis Sternau Mr. & Mrs. Alexander D. Mr. & Mrs. James Stewart-Gordon Washburn Chauncey D. Stillman Edward B. Watson Harry R. Stokes Prof. Glenn Weaver Mrs. J.G. Phelps Stokes Mr. & Mrs. Walter W. Weber, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Strauss Charles D. Webster Mr. & Mrs. Edward Strauss, Jr. Weiler-Arnow Family Edward M. Strauss, III Anna K. Weisz Henry S. Streeter Mr. & Mrs. Walter Werner Meriwether Stuart Mrs. William R. Wesson Mr. & Mrs. Fife Symington Harriet A. Whelchel Mrs. John Campbell White Michael A. Taylor Stanley White Alice Telasko I A. Pennington Whitehead Dorothy Thomas Arnold Whitridge Charles D.W. Thompson Lawrence A. Wien Mr. & Mrs. Loran T. Thompson Mrs. Francis D. Wiener Mrs. Ralph Thompson John V. Willetts Prof. Linton Thorn Mr. & Mrs. Ichabod T. Williams Robert V. Tishman Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wolcott, III Andrew Tobias Mrs. J. Frank Wood Mark D. Tomasko Mrs. Joseph T. Woodle Alexander Tomes, Jr. David H. Wright Frances C. Train Susanne Wynkoop John B. Trevor, Jr. Morris Tyler Barbara J. Zimmerman Lionel Ziprin Mr. & Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Dr. Matthew A. Zuckerbraun Jr. Gerald Van der Kemp Corporate and Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Van Contributions, 1983-1984 Rensselaer William Vendice American Heritage Publishing Company, Inc. Mrs. Bayard Walker American Standard Inc. Wendell K. Walker William Altaian Advertising, Dr. & Mrs. Franklin Ward Incorporated Nancy D. Warfield Apple Bank for Savings Dr. Steven Warnecke The Vincent Astor Foundation

62 Adantic Richfield Foundation Bertha Koempel Foundation, Inc. Bankers Trust Company Elizabeth Kraft Trust The Bank of New York Maury P. & Geiger Leibovitz Banque Francaise de Commerce Foundation Exterieur Lincoln Savings Bank, FSB Bergdorf Goodman Frances and John L. Loeb The Blue Print Company, Inc. Foundation Edith C. Blum Foundation R.H. Love Galleries, Inc. Bowne & Co., Inc. The Loyal Legion Foundation Caswell-Massey Pharmacy R.H. Macy &Co., Inc. Chemical Bank Manufacturers Hanover Trust City Investing Company Company Foundation McGraw-Hill, Inc. Coach Leatherware Mellon Bank College of Arms Foundation Metropolis magazine Consolidated Edison Company of William and Theresa Meyerowitz New York Foundation The Charles A. Dana Foundation Modernage Photographic Daughters of Colonial Wars Services, Inc. The Dillon Fund Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, William Doyle Galleries, Inc. Inc. The Dun & Bradstreet National Society, Daughters of Corporation Colonial Wars The Armand G. Erpf Fund The New York Times Company Esmark, Inc. The New York Times Company Ex-New Yorkers for New York Foundation, Inc. Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Heine, The Old Print Shop, Inc. Underberg, & Casey Order of Colonial Lords of First National Bank of Chicago Manors The Samuel Freeman Charitable The Overbrook Foundation Trust Pfizer Inc. Frederick H. Gillmore Fund RKO General Foundation Glazier Fund Reader's Digest Goldome Foundation Arthur Ross Foundation W.R. Grace & Company The Rudin Foundation, Inc. Evelyn J. Hall Charitable Trust Salad King, Inc. Home Life Insurance Company Sarah I. Schieffelin Residuary The Hongkong and Shanghai ' Trust Banking Corporation Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. Impact Systems J. & W. Seligman & Co. Kennedy Galleries, Inc. Esther Simon Charitable Trust

63 Society of the Daughters of Government Grants, 1983-1984 Holland Dames Institute of Museum Services Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. National Endowment for the The Thayer Lindsley Trust Humanities The Thorne Foundation New York Council for the Tiffany & Co. Time Incorporated Humanities Time-Life Books Inc. New York State Council on U.S. Trust Company of the Arts United States Department of New York Education U.S. Trust Corporation The H.W. Wilson Foundation

Matching Gifts

CBS Foundation Chase Manhattan Bank Chubb & Son Inc. Citibank, N.A. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Exxon Corporation Great Northern Nekoosa Company I.B.M. Corporation The McGraw-Hill Foundation, Inc. Mobil Foundation, Inc. Monsanto Fund New York Telephone Phelps Dodge Foundation Philip Morris Incorporated

64 Contributors to the Library, ,?£" 1983-1984

Albany Institute of History and Neil Berman Art Mrs. Ward L. Berry Alexander Alland, Sr. Bibliograficas Biblioteca Allen Memorial Art Museum Nacional Instituto de Andrew Alpern Investigaciones American Academy in Rome Mrs. Douglas Bissett American Bible Society Michael Blumenthal American Irish Historical Society Richard B. Bos sard American Medical Association Mary Boyd The American Museum of Frank O. Braynard Natural History Thomas A. Brennan, Jr. Amsterdams Historisch Museum Brooklyn Museum Anonymous Brooklyn Museum Libraries Mrs. Hamilton Fish Armstrong Brooklyn Rediscovery Art Students League of New York Mrs. Raymond J. Browder Robert Arthur Robert J. Brown The Estate of Tilly Ash Mrs. William H. Brown Association of American Colleges The Bronx County Historical Ed Aster Society, Inc. Rev. Robert R. Austin, Jr. Bulkley Dunton and Company Austrian Press and Information Mrs. Julius Bunin Service Wayne Burkey Burlington County Historical Jane F. Babson Society Dr. Jeremiah A. Barondess Ann Buttenwieser Hertha Bauer Barbara Smith Buys Ernest B. Bayliss Tom Beck Senator John D. Caemmerer Bedford Tricentennial Committee Joseph Cahn Charles K. Bedwell, III Kenneth W Cameron Mrs. Howard F. Beir Colin Campbell Dr. James B. Bell Mrs. Crawford Campbell

65 Donald S. Carmichael John and Patricia Duffie Eloise Carpenter David W. Dumas "Causeries du Lundi" Jerry Duane Duncan Central Arizona Museum of Helen Dunlop History Professor Richard Durnin William A. Chanler Dutchess County Genealogical Chappaqua Historical Society Society Chemung County Historical Society Museum Lynn Case Ekfelt Chester County Genealogical Eleutherian Mills—Hagley Society Foundation Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel Childs Mrs. Roger C. Elliot Cincinnati Art Museum Mary Endres Cincinnati Historical Society Joseph W. Engels Robert S. Clarke Clinton County Historical Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. Association Loren W, Fessler David Cohn Lawrence Fleischman Cecelia Collett Dr. Daisy Fletcher Colorado Historical Society Florida State University Columbia University School of Music The Commonwealth Fund William Albert Forbes Connecticut, State of Fort Hamilton Historical Society The Connecticut Historical Society Mrs. John M. Fox Evelyn Costa Dennis Brindell Fradin Cotronics Corporation Professor Sydney Freedberg La Wanda Cox Free Library of Philadelphia Mrs. A. S. Croll Muriel Talbot French Charlotte M. Cunningham Dorothy Frooks Richard Cushman Mrs. Spencer Fulweiler Mrs. C. Suydam Cutting Janette Gatty Baroness I. G. Dahlerup William Gekle The Darien Historical Society GEO Magazine Daughters of Saint Paul Genealogical Research of Granger Davenport Central New Jersey Davy Corporation General Telephone Company Keith Douglas de Lellis of Florida The Detroit Institute of Arts Mrs. John Georgi Dog Museum of America German Information Center Herbert Drapkin Gettysburg College

66 A. C. Glassgold Mrs. James R. Hudson Glenbow Museum Mrs. Morton Huff Joyce Gold The Hunsberger Family Joseph Goldberg Association Martin K. Gordon Henry Anthony Hyman Irving Gottsegan Bruce J. Gould Mrs. John J. Ide Mr. M. Grassi Indiana Historical Society Christopher Gray International Institute of John V. Gray Garibaldian Studies Morris Greenberg Institute of Early American Neil Greenberg History and Culture Stanley Greenberg Institutul de Istorie si Arheologie Greensboro Preservation Society «A. D. Xenopol" Guild Hall Museum Martin Itzler Eric Greenleaf Thomas Jefferson Memorial Lewis Hall Foundation George DeLancey Hanger Johnson and Higgins Ruth Hannah The Journal of the American Felix Hargett Medical Association Alice Whitehouse Harjes Stephen F, Harmon Raymond Kane Nan M. Harigan Katonah Gallery Jay Harris Mrs. Harry Katz Mrs. Gilbert Hart Helen B. Kay Mrs. Edgar A, Hatcher Leon Kaye William H. Helfand Mr. & Mrs. Alan H. Kempner Hilary Heller Kennedy Galleries Clement S. Henry David Kirschenbaum Mrs. Frederick Hessel Mrs. William Kopper Walter Higinbothem Howard Koslow Historical Society of Early Francis M. Krall American Decoration Inc. Gene Hochman Benjamin Laba Conrad C. Hon Lackawanna Historical Society Hope Farm Press and Bookshop Library Roger B. Hopkins, Jr. Fiorello H. LaGuardia Bernice M. Horrall Community College of CUNY Robert L. Hoguet Frances Landau M.M. Howland, Esq. Robert de Treville Lawrence, III

67 Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Leab The Mount Vernon Ladies' Edmund Lerville Association Kent Leutzinger Judge Thomas F. Murphy Liberty Press Liberty Classics Mystic Seaport Museum Library of Congress Helen Lincoln National Association of Women Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library Artists and Museum National Endowment for the James D. Livingston Humanities Locust Valley Fire Department National Historical Publications David Lowe and Records Commission Mrs. Frank Lowell National Portrait Gallery Naval War College Mrs. Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin New Hampshire Historical Society Manchester City Art Galjery New York Botanical Garden S. Manigold New York City — Borough of Marble Collegiate Church Queens Arthur Margon/The Real Estate New York City — Department of Board of New York, Inc. Housing Preservation and Maryland Historical Society Development Dr. Bruce Maston New York City Technical College — Lisa B. Mausolf City University of New York William Benz Maynard New York Genealogical and Richard McDermott Biographical Society Neil McKenzie New York State Council on William G. McKnight the Arts Mrs. Walter O. Melichar New York State Historical Mercantile Library Association of Association the City of New York New York State Library Metropolitan Museum of Art New York State—Office of the Miami University State Comptroller Microfilming Corporation of New York Stock Exchange America Newark Museum Joseph B. Milgram Newark Museum Quarterly Dr. Lillian B. Miller Newburgh Free Library Roger Mohovich Phil Newfeld Takako Momose Mrs. Harry A. Nichols Montclair Art Museum George W. Nordham S. Moore Charles F. Morris Office for Metropolitan History Ellen Morris Paul Olinkiewicz

68 The Open Door Publishers Lewis Hoyer Rabbage Order of Saint Augustine Radcliffe College, Arthur and Order of the Founders and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library Patriots of America on the History of Women in Oregon Historical Society America Victor Oristano Dr. David M. Ramsey Jean B. Osann Evelyn Raskopf Wesley H. Ott Allen Walker Read Readex Microprint Corporation Ilona Albok Parker Mrs. Willis Reese George A. Parsons Colonel & Mrs. Lester F. Dr. & Mrs. Alexander F. Pathy Rentmeester Campbell W. Pennington Rhode Island Historical Society Penguin Books Katherine M. Richards Dr. Thomas Perry Donald Ringwald Mr. & Mrs. Walter Peterson Rizzoli Mrs. Edward M. Pflueger Kenneth Robinson Philadelphia Museum of Art Rochester Museum and Science Photographic Historical Society Center of New York, Inc. Rockefeller University Polytechnic Institute of Sandra Roff New York—Library Dr. & Mrs. H. Rosenberg Port Authority of New York Roslyn Landmark Society, Inc. and New Jersey Professor Leland M. Roth Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth H. R. R. Donnelley and Sons Powers Company The Estate of Sarah Fuller Preston Princeton University Press William H. W. Sabine Paul W. Prindle Sagi Societa Arti Grafiche Public Archives Canada Industriali ar.l. Public Library of Cincinnati and Saint Louis Art Museum Hamilton County Edith Sakell Shunji Sakuyama Queens Historical Society— Retha M. Sales Slocum Memorial Committee Samaritan Society, Inc. Queens Borough Public Library San Diego Historical Society Saratoga County Museum William H. Savage Mrs. Henry B. Schmidt Ludwig F. M. Schulze Frank S. Schwartz and Son

69 Dr. Robert R. Schwartz Robert A. M. Stern Architects Scottish Rite Masonic Museum Dr. Larry E. Sullivan of Our National Heritage Leon Supraner Augusta Huiell Seaman Society Laurel B. Swan Harry P. Seeback Syracuse University Art Seniors Helping Seniors, Inc. • Collections Wendy Shadwell Marcia C. Sheer Frances Taintor Shoreline Press Ellen Tarry Mildred Shotton Simon R. Thoresen Dr. Merle E. Simmons Time Life Books Elizabeth Smith Timothy Trace John Smith Toledo Museum of Art R. Smith Transcendental Books Smithsonian Institution Ruth Trappen Smithtown Historical Society Bennett W. Trupin Robert Snyder Social Science Research Council United States Army Society of Colonial Wars in the United States Senate—Office of State of Rhode Island and the Secretary, Historical Providence Plantations Universidad Nacional Autonom Society of the Friendly Sons of De Mexico St. Patrick University of California, Berkeley South African Library University of Chicago Press South Carolina State Library University of Michigan Historical South Oaks Hospital Collections/Bentley Historical Spain, Embassy of Library Stark Museum of Art University of North Carolina Press State Education Department University of Notre Dame — State Historical Society of The Snite Museum of Art North Dakota University of Rochester Memorial State Historical Society of Art Gallery South Dakota University of Texas at Austin— State University of New York at Archer M. Huntington Art Buffalo Gallery State University of New York at University of the Pacific for the Stony Brook—Frank Melville, Holt—Atherton Pacific Center Jr., Memorial Library for Western Studies Staten Island Academy University of the State of Philip W. Stein New York Edward L. Stephenson

70 University of Virginia, Mrs. William T. Zabriskie Alderman Library Helena Zinkham

Edward J. Van Dyke Paul L. Veeder, II Venezuela, The Republic of— Ministry of Foreign Relations Verlag Gruner and Jahr AG and Company Verlag Zeit Im Bild Vermilion Veterans of the Seventh Regiment Sandra Vertoumis Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor Mrs. Vincent S. Villard Virginia State Library

Larry Wachsman Lowell A. Warren, Jr. Ruth Warren Washington Association of New Jersey Dorothy Faxon Waters Wave Hill Seth Joseph Weine West Hartford, Connecticut, Town of Eugene E. Weise, M.D. Professor Winston R. Weisman George Whitmore Mrs. Icabod Thomas Williams Louis Williams Gladys Winans Helen M. Winslow Dorothy F. Woodward

Yale University Library Yivo Institute for Jewish Studies .Katherine Young

71 Museum Acquisitions, 1983-1984 m

Paintings and Drawings

Changing Old New York by Ernest Fiene, 1931. Bryan Fund. Castle Garden and the Bay of New York by Samuel Colman (1832-1920), 1867. Bryan Fund. Portrait of John Jay Phelps (1810-1869) by Daniel Huntington (1816-1906), 1869. Gift of Dorothy P. West. Portraits of James Milton Benedict (1814-1867) and Mrs. James Milton Benedict (1820-after 1880) by Cephas G. Thompson (1809-1888) c. 1841. Gift of Mrs. Reid B. Cochran. Portrait of David Grim (1737-1826) by an unidentified artist, c. 1810-1820. Portrait of John Peter Schermerhorn by an unidentified artist. Bequest of Constance Schermerhorn Skillin. Seated by the Meadow Stream and Autumn Landscape by Benjamin Champ- ney (1817-1907), 1884. Bequest of Elsie Stevenson Magie. New York Public Library, Interior, c. 1917-1918, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Reception, 1924, by Theresa Bernstein. Bryan Fund. On the Ninth Avenue, 79th Street, New York by William Rickarby Miller (1818-1893), 1879. Bryan Fund. Second Harlem River Bridge by Clarence Q. Payne, 1879 and High Bridge, Harlem River, New York signed "H.B.* Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Payne. Sidewalks of New York, or Rich Girl, Poor Girl by James Henry Cafferty (1819-1869), 1859. Bryan Fund. Untitled pencil drawing by Robert Henri (1865-1929). Gift of Mr. Allen S. Wilder.

72 Couple Before a Fireplace by Robert Henri (1865-1929). Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Stuart P. Feld. 4 Sketches by John Townsend Howes: Landscape, 1900 Near Kingsbridge, New York, 1891 In Meadows, Gray Study, Near Brookdale Study of Rocks in Wood, Heidelberg Gifts of Mr. & Mrs. Stuart P. Feld. Portrait of a Young Man by Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880), 1844. Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Stuart P. Feld. Six sketches by William Brenton Boggs (1809-1875): Fashions, New York, 1853 Herald Express—News from Europe Artist at his Easel The People— The 'help" Three Ladies in Bonnets Man with Gun Gifts of Mr. & Mrs. Stuart P. Feld. Portrait of David Provoost attributed to Abraham Delanoy (1742-1795), and Portrait of a Lady of the Provoost Family attributed to Gerardus Duyckinck (1695-1746). Gifts of Allan R. Cross and James V Cross. Alberto and 14th Street, IRT by Erika Weihs, 1949. Gift of Tom Weihs. Flags, 57th Street, Winter by Childe Hassam, 1918. Polo Grounds and High Bridge by Joseph Pennell, 1902. Bequest of Julia B. Engel. Pair of Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Peleg Pelton by Ammi Phillips (1788-1865), 1826. Bequest of Robert J. Stickney. Over the Hills and Far Away by Jervis McEntee, 1878. Pictures in the Fire, 1876, pair of portraits by Seneca Ray Stoddard. Gift of Richard T. Sharp. Pair of Portraits by William and Phebe Hodson Roberts by Gilbert Canfield, c. 1880. Gift of Mrs. Henry V Wells. Portrait of Grover Cleveland by Eastman Johnson (1824-1906), c. 1885. Bryan Fund. On the Hudson by Julian O. Davidson (1853-1894). Bryan Fund.

73 Niagara Falls, Part of the American Fall From the Foot of the Staircase and Niagara Falls, View of the American Fall, Taken From Goat Island by William James Bennett (c. 1784-1844). Bryan Fund.

Decorative Arts Objects

Silver Caster made by John Vernon, New York, c. 1820. Gift of Mr. Robert G. Goelet. Revolutionary War Powderhom made by Daniel Parke, New York, 1776. Abbott-Lenox Fund. Victorian Rosewood Salon Set, unidentified American maker, c. 1840s-1850s. Gift of Mrs. Donald C. Platten. Settee Pair of Open Arm Chairs Pair of Side Chairs Chinoiserie Silver Pitcher marked Tiffany, Young & Ellis, New York, c. 1850. Gift of Mrs. Cruger D. G. Fowler and Family in memory of Cruger Delafield Groesbeck Fowler. Four Pieces of Tiffany Faorile Glass made at the Tiffany Furnaces, Corona, New York, c. 1900-1920. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Koch. Floriform Vase Jack-in-the-Pulpit Vase Footed Round Bowl Round Bowl Thirty-three Pieces of Miniature Furniture made by William P. Yankauer. Gift of Mr. William P. Yankauer. Breakfront Xlhinese" Chest Two-door Cabinet Chest with inlaid top Smoker's Stand Circular Table with inlaid top Tilt-top Table 2 Comer Cabinets Swivel Desk Chair Wig Stand and Bowl Table with inlaid top

74 2 Butler's Tray Tables Winthrop Desk Dining Table and Six Chairs Bentwood Rocker Roll-top Desk Six-drawer Chest Bombay Chest Love Seat Provincial Desk Samanier Chest with five inlaid drawers Lowboy Provincial Chest Inlaid Drum Table George III Silver Tea Set made by J. McKay, Edinburgh, c. 1817-1818. Bequest of Elsie Stevenson Magie; Silver and Enamel Tea Caddy made by Tiffany and Co., New York, 1885. Foster-Jarvis and Hoffman Funds. Silver Tea Caddy made by Tiffany & Co., New York, c. 1910. Abbott- Lenox Fund. Set of Four Silver Teaspoons made by Cary Dunn, New York, c. 1780. •Hoffman Fund. Silver Sandwich Server made by William Gale and Son, New York, c. 1860. Gift of Mr. Robert G. Goelet. Silver Teapot made by Tiffany and Co., New York, c. 1873-1874. Gift of Mr. Robert G. Goelet. Group of 14 Silver Teaspoons made by New York silversmiths. Gift of Mr. Robert G. Goelet 2 spoons by Edward Rockwell, New York City, c. 1825 1 spoon by John Dodge, New York City, c. 1800-1817 2 spoons by Thaddeus Keeler, New York City, c. 1805-1815 1 spoon by John Boutier, New York City, c. 1805 1 spoon by Peter Field, Jr., New York City, c. 1807-1810 1 spoon by Colin Van Gilder Forbes, New York City, c. 1808 5 spoons by W S. Roe, Kingston," New York, c. 1800-1805 1 spoon by Cornelius A. Burr, Rochester, New York , c. 1838-1850

75 Silver Tea Service made by Tiffany & Co., New York, 1888. Gift of Mr. Robert G. Goelet. Five American Glass Cup Plates, nineteenth century. Gift of Colonel H.O. Havemeyer. Chinese Export Porcelain partial dinner service, c. 1790-1800. Gift of Mrs. Kenneth McNeil. American Silver Fish Slice, made for Tiffany by John Pohlemus, c. 1853-1869. Gift of Mrs. Noel F. Bowers. American Silver Soup Ladle, hourglass pattern, by Frederick Marquand, New York, c. 1823. Gift of Mrs. Noel F. Bowers. American Silver Soup Ladle, fiddle pattern, by George C. Howe, New York, c. 1825. Gift of Mrs. Noel F. Bowers. American Silver Soup Ladle, plain fiddle pattern, by E. Stebbins & Co., New York, c. 1823. Gift of Mrs. Noel F. Bowers. Pair of American Silver Serving Spoons, fiddlethrea d pattern, by Edward Rockwell, New York, c. 1807. Gift of Mrs. Noel F. Bowers. American Silver Fish Slice, fiddle shell pattern, by Frederick Marquand, New York, early nineteenth century. Gift of Mrs. Noel F. Bowers. Silver Soup Ladle, by Wood & Hughes, c. 1845. Gift of Mrs. Noel F. Bowers. The Gouvemeur Cup by Francis Crump, London, c. 1762-1763. Gift of Eugene H. Walker. Statue of Liberty dresser scarf, c. 1886. Gift of Helen Zolot. Toy Building Clocks and original pine box case by F. & A. Richter & Co., 1880. Toy Building Clock set in wooden cart, American, nineteenth century. Gifts of Charles A. Van Patten. Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Lamps. Gift of Dr. Egon Neustadt. 32 plaster portrait sculptures by Malvina Hoffman (1887-1966), first half of twentieth century. Gift of Malvina Hoffman Estate, through Barbara M. Hoffman. Silver Sauce Ladle, by John Cheadell (1806-1875), c. 1820-1835. Pair of Silver Sugar Tongs by John Cheadell, c. 1833-1851. Gifts of Mrs. Joan R. Drummond.

76 Plate from the Pell Service, Chinese export porcelain, c. 1806. Gift of William R. Banks. Scale model of the Flying Cloud, unknown maker, twentieth century. Gift of Andres Yzaguirre. Six American Colored Glass Cup Plates, nineteenth century. Gift of Colonel Henry O. Havemeyer. Mother-of-Pearl Sea Chest, maker unknown, c. 1850. Gift of Stanley Chao. Eight bronze and three terra cotta sculptures, by Jo Davidson (1883-1952). Gift of Dr. Maury Leibovitz. Four medals from the American Civil War. Gift of Helen J. Ahner. Collection of doll dresses and accessories, c. 1900. Gift of Teresa Hamilton. Silver favor from a banquet of the Associated Veterans of the Delameter Iron Works, 1917. Gift of Mrs. H. Stuart Bacon. Silver Sauce Ladle, c. 1830, and Silver Sugar Tongs, c. 1840, by John H. Cheadell, New York. Gift of Joan R. Drummond and John Chedell Richardson, Jr. Six archaeological artifacts from the Tippett House Site, Spuyten Duyvil, New York, eighteenth century. Bequest of George Younkheere, Sr. Pair of clogs made by William Roberts, New York, nineteenth century. Gift of Mrs. Henry V. Wells. Silver Presentation Cup by William Adams, New York, c. 1841.

77 Presidents and Medalists

Presidents Egbert Benson, LL.D., 1805-1815 Augustus Schell, 1883-1884 Gouverneur Morris, 1816 Benjamin Hazard Field, DeWitt Clinton, LL.D., 1817-1819 1885-1886 David Hosack, M.D., LL.D., John Alsop King, 1887-1900 1820-1827 Eugene August Hoffman, D.D., James Kent, LL.D., 1828-1831 LL.D., 1901-1902 Morgan Lewis, 1832-1835 Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Peter Gerard Stuyvesant, 1903-1913 1836-1839 John Abeel Weekes, 1913-1939 Peter Augustus Jay, George Zabriskie, LL.D., 1939-1947 LL.D., 1840-1842 Fenwick Beekman, M.D., Albert Gallatin, LL.D., 1843-1849 1947-1956 Luther Bradish, LL.D., 1850-1863 LeRoy E. Kimball, LL.D., Frederic DePeyster, LL.D., 1956-1962 1864-1866 Irving S. Olds, LL.D., D.S.C, Hamilton Fish, LL.D., 1867-1869 D.H.L., 1962-1963 Thomas DeWitt, LL.D., 1869-1871 Frederick B. Adams, Jr., A.F.D., Augustus Schell, 1872 LITT.D., L.H.D., 1963-1970 Frederic DePeyster, LL.D., Robert G. Goelet, 1971- 1873-1882 Medalists Gold Medal for Achievement Gold Medal for Distinguished in History Service I.N. Phelps Stokes, 1925 John Abeel Weekes, 1933 Wilberforce Eames, 1931 Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, 1933 DeWitt M. Lockman, N.A., 1933 George Zabriskie, LL.D., 1937 George CD. Odell, 1942 Fenwick Beekman, M.D., 1954 Harry T. Peters, 1947 Thomas W. Streeter, LITT.D., 1957 Allan Nevins, 1954 JamesJ. Heslin, PH.D., 1982 R.W.G. Vail, LITT.D., L.H.D., 1960

78 Board of Trustees

Robert G. Goelet, President Robert S. Beekman, M.D., First Vice President Lucius Wilmerding, Jr., Vice President James J. Beha, Secretary Mrs. Margaret W. Platten, Treasurer Theodore R. Gamble, Jr., Assistant Treasurer

Term Ending 1986 Term Ending 1989 Wendell Garrett Mrs. Crawford J. Campbell Russell Lynes Jarvis Cromwell Mrs. Margaret W. Platten John H. G. Pell Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor Mrs. Robert Lee Patterson E. Lisk Wyckoff, Jr. Term Ending 1987 Robert S. Beekman, M.D. Honorary Trustees Theodore R. Gamble, Jr. Frederick B. Adams, Jr. A.F.D, Robert G. Goelet LITT.D., L.H.D. Walter Lord Mrs. John Kean Lucius Wilmerding, Jr. R. McAllister Lloyd, LL.D.

Term Ending 1988 James J. Beha Christopher C. Forbes Albert L. Key George T. Scharffenberger Frank S. Streeter John G. Winslow

79 Committees

Executive On Finance Robert S. Beekman, M.D,, Mrs. Margaret W. Platten, Chairman Chairman Theodore R. Gamble, Jr. Theodore R. Gamble, Jr. Mrs. Margaret W. Platten George T. Scharffenberger Frank S. Streeter John G. Winslow E. Lisk Wyckoff, Jr. On Nominating On Museum and Exhibitions James J. Beha, Chairman Wendell Garrett, Chairman Theodore R. Gamble, Jr. Mrs. Crawford J. Campbell Mrs. Robert Lee Patterson Theodore R, Gamble, Jr. Russell Lynes Examining and Audit Mrs. Robert Lee Patterson Frank S. Streeter John G. Winslow E. Lisk Wyckoff, Jr.

On Library Ex-Officio, All Committees E. Lisk Wyckoff, Jr., Chairman Mr. Goelet Christopher C. Forbes Mrs. Platten Walter Lord Dr. Bell John H. G. Pell Frank S. Streeter James B. Bell, Director Lucius Wilmerding, Jr.

On Development and Membership Albert L. Key, Chairman Jarvis Cromwell Christopher C. Forbes Mrs. Margaret W, Platten George T. Scharffenberger Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor John G. Winslow

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